President Trump Files Appeal of Mass Firings

The enormous stakes in a new Supreme Court case about Trump’s mass firings

Demonstrators protest against mass layoffs outside the Department of Health and Human Services in Washington, DC, on May 22, 2025. In late May, a federal court handed down an order pausing President Donald Trump’s plans to fire a simply astonishing amount of federal workers. As Judge Susan Illston explains in her opinion, the proposed cuts are so sweeping that they would effectively shut down multiple federal programs. To give just a few example…

President Trump files appeal of mass firings

(CNN, KYMA/KECY) - President Donald Trump's fight to fire federal employees is back at the Supreme Court. Administration officials filed an emergency appeal to reverse a lower court order. The order blocked the administration's sweeping layoffs and major reorganization efforts at federal agencies. Critics say that those efforts go well beyond constitutional boundaries. However, the U.S. Solicitor General said that controlling the federal agency …

Trump and Special Education: What Parents Should Know - Chicago Parent

President Donald Trump has pledged to shutter the Department of Education but also promised that students with disabilities will keep getting the services they need. Special education advocates, school district officials and teachers say mass federal layoffs mean that too few people are left to carry out a complicated law intended to protect some of the nation’s most vulnerable students’ right to an education. The administration laid off nearly …