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Supreme Court allows Trump to proceed with large-scale government agency staff cuts, reorganizations
UNITED STATES, JUL 9 – The Supreme Court lifted a lower court block on Trump’s executive order, allowing federal agencies to proceed with layoffs affecting potentially hundreds of thousands of employees.
- On Tuesday, July 8, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court lifted a lower court block, clearing the way for President Donald Trump's mass federal layoffs and downsizing plan.
- The decision stems from a February executive order by Trump to enable mass layoffs and the creation of DOGE, with Musk tasked with overseeing spending cuts.
- At least 75,000 federal employees took deferred resignations, unions estimate 40–50% agency cuts, and the Supreme Court voted 8–1 to lift the injunction blocking these reductions.
- Following the Supreme Court's decision, agencies must submit layoff plans by late August, with unions warning of service disruptions and scheduling protests on July 10 in Washington, D.C.
- The Supreme Court's decision affirms presidential authority under Article II, but the case remains temporarily unresolved in Judge Illston’s court as litigation continues.
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Supreme Court Green Lights Trump Administration Plan to Downsize Government and Shrink Payroll
from The Conservative Treehouse: The Supreme Court has approved a request for intervention by the high court and blocked a lower level court ruling that stopped the Trump administration from reducing the size of government. In an 8-1 ruling [SEE HERE] with again only Ketanji Brown Jackson in dissent, the court has stayed the lower […]
Supreme Court OKs Trump’s Mass Firings and Elimination of Federal Agencies
The United States Supreme Court has cleared a path for the Trump administration to gut the federal workforce and eliminate entire federal agencies. On Tuesday, justices released an unsigned order from its “shadow docket” lifting lower court injunctions that had blocked mass layoffs and the restructuring of federal agencies — even though Congress has not authorized those plans. In a dissenting opinion, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson called the cou…
Supreme Court allows Trump to proceed with plans to downsize the federal workforce - American Press
The Supreme Court on Tuesday cleared the way for President Donald Trump’s plans to downsize the federal workforce despite warnings that critical government services will be lost and hundreds of thousands of federal employees will be out of their jobs. The justices overrode lower court orders that temporarily froze the cuts, which have been led by the Department of Government Efficiency. The court said in an unsigned order that no specific cuts w…
Supreme Court Oks Trump firing of tens of thousands of government workers
WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court has allowed President Trump to destroy union contracts covering a million federal workers by nullifying a lower court hold on his mass firings and destruction of numerous government agencies. By sending the lawsuit by unions back down to lower courts for a trial, the High Court effectively allows the Trump administration, while disregarding Congress, to carry out its destruction of the federal workforce and the agenc…
SCOTUS greenlights Trump's federal firings
What happenedThe Supreme Court Tuesday ruled that the Trump administration can conduct mass federal firings without Congress' permission. The decision lifts a lower court's block on an executive order President Donald Trump issued in February aimed at "eliminating waste, bloat, and insularity" across government and paves the way for thousands of workers to be cut from multiple departments.Who said whatThis case "represents a key test" of the ext…
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