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Supreme Court Lets Trump Proceed With Broad Workforce Cuts
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4:36Now PlayingThe US Supreme Court let President Donald Trump move ahead with plans to dramatically reduce the size of the federal government, lifting a court order that had blocked 19 federal departments and agencies from slashing their workforces.
Granting a Trump request over one dissent, the justices on Tuesday cleared the administration to implement Trump’s Feb. 11 executive order, which opponents say could cause hundreds of thousands of federal workers to lose their jobs. The Supreme Court decision will apply while litigation goes forward.
In an unsigned order, the court said the administration is likely to succeed in arguing that Trump’s executive order and a joint memo from the Office of Management and Budget and Office of Personnel Management were lawful. But the justices made clear they weren’t taking a position at this stage on whether individual agency plans for how to carry it out would pass legal muster.
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented, writing that a California federal judge’s “temporary, practical, harm-reducing preservation of the status quo was no match for this court’s demonstrated enthusiasm for greenlighting this president’s legally dubious actions in an emergency posture.”
Justice Sonia Sotomayor joined the majority, a rarity in cases involving Trump administration actions that so far have largely divided the court along ideological lines.
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