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Supreme Court says Trump’s government overhaul can go forward for now : NPR

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Last updated: July 8, 2025 8:32 pm
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The Trump administration asked Justice Elena Kagan for an administrative stay of a lower court decision pausing President Trump’s massive government reorganization.

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The Supreme Court on Tuesday lifted a lower court order that had blocked President Trump’s executive order requiring government agencies to lay off hundreds of thousands of federal employees.

The order was unsigned. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, who was appointed to the court by President Biden, dissented. Justice Sonia Sotomayor, a fellow liberal, concurred with the court’s decision. The order did not make clear how the other justices voted.

In February, Trump detailed an extensive plan instructing agency heads to prepare for “large-scale reductions in force,” known as RIFs.

Later that month, the administration issued an accompanying memorandum alleging that the federal government is “costly, inefficient and deeply in debt,” and blaming that inefficiency on “unproductive and unnecessary programs that benefit radical interest groups.” The memo required agency heads to submit initial layoff plans to the Office of Management and Budget and the U.S. Office of Personnel Management two weeks later.

The executive order and memorandum included explicit tools for staff reduction including a general standard that no more than one employee should be hired for every four employees that depart, removing underperforming employees, and allowing term or temporary positions to expire without renewal.

Groups challenging the layoffs in court contend that the RIFs could result in “hundreds of thousands of federal employees los[ing] their jobs.” They argued that without the temporary restraint “there w[ould] be no way to unscramble the egg” if they eventually won the larger case in the lower court. They contended that without the temporary block to the federal layoffs, “critical government services would be lost … there [would] be no way to go back in time to restore those agencies, functions, and services.”

Labor unions, advocacy groups and local governments sued the president and 21 federal agencies over the RIFs, contending that the president exceeded his authority in mandating the federal layoffs. They argued that the president avoided the congressional approval needed to restructure federal agencies.

During his first term, Trump sought congressional approval to mandate similar layoffs. But, Congress rejected his plan. This time Trump didn’t bother going to Congress, and objectors sued, arguing that to implement the RIF plan legally, the administration should have sought congressional approval or “cooperate[d] with Congress through the regular legislative or budgetary process.”

Demonstrators raise signs during a rally outside the National Institutes of Health on May 10, 2025 in Bethesda, Maryland.

The administration contends that the president has the authority to conduct mass layoffs on his own. As the executive, they argue, “the President does not need additional statutory authorization to direct agencies to conduct RIFs to further reorganizations.”

U.S. District Judge Susan Illston, a federal district court judge in California, disagreed, temporarily blocking the administration from mandating mass agency-wide layoffs while lower court proceedings continue.

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Illston, a Clinton appointee, also blocked a subsequent OMB and OPM memo telling agencies how to carry out Trump’s executive order.

Illston’s decision stopped most of the government’s largest agencies from issuing new reorganization plans and layoff notices. It also prevented those agencies from formally separating those who have already received such notices and are currently on administrative leave.

The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has since agreed with the lower court, concluding that because the order is temporary, it isn’t too heavy a burden on the administration’s actions.

In seeking to unblock the lower court order, the administration said that the lower court had joined “the parade of courts entering improper universal injunctions.” When a federal judge issues a universal injunction, he or she not only stops the government’s action in their region but throughout the entire country — hence, the lower court halted Trump’s executive order not only in California but across the U.S.

This isn’t the first time that the Trump administration has appealed to the Supreme Court contesting universal injunctions. In May, the high court considered whether federal district courts could use the tactic to block Trump’s executive order overturning birthright citizenship. It has taken the same position in almost every case involving such injunctions.

On Tuesday, as it has done with most of these cases, the court sided with the Trump administration and allowed the president to resume plans for mass federal layoffs.

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