SCOTUS halts rehiring of thousands of federal workers
April 8, 2025
74,015
675
704
1.86%
Search the Record
IndexedEvery word spoken in this episode is indexed. Type any phrase to jump straight to the moment it was said.
Type any word or phrase that may have been spoken. Click a result to seek the player to that exact moment.
Try a name, a topic, or a quoted line
MSNBC Episodes Around April 8, 2025
See what was published immediately before and after this episode.
1:32Now PlayingSCOTUS halts rehiring of thousands of federal workers
YouTube Description
as posted by the channelThe Supreme Court halts a judge’s order to reinstate federal probationary workers, after siding with the Trump administration for the second day in a row in emergency litigation, following Monday night's 5-4 ruling in a deportations case.
Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented from today’s grant of the Trump administration's application in this latest case. The administration had filed an urgent appeal seeking an immediate halt to a California judge’s order to reinstate roughly 16,000 fired federal employees.
The high court also sided 5-4 with the administration on Friday in a case about canceling education-related grants.
For more context and news coverage of the most important stories of our day click here
» Subscribe to MSNBC
» Subscribe to MSNBC on TikTok
» Subscribe to MSNBC on Instagram
Download our new MSNBC app for the latest breaking news and daily headlines at a glance
Follow MSNBC Show Blogs
ReidOut Blog
MSNBC delivers breaking news, in-depth analysis of politics headlines, as well as commentary and informed perspectives. Find video clips and segments from The Rachel Maddow Show, Morning Joe, The Beat with Ari Melber, Deadline: White House, The ReidOut, All In, Last Word, 11th Hour, and Alex Wagner who brings her breadth of reporting experience to MSNBC primetime.
Connect with MSNBC Online
Visit msnbc.com
Subscribe to the MSNBC Daily Newsletter
Guests & Subjects Covered
Sentinel Indexing in Progress
Metadata and chapters are available. Claim extraction for this episode is pending.
All video content is delivered via YouTube embedded players in accordance with the YouTube Terms of Service. Sentinel provides research tools that promote discovery and accountability across political media.









