The U.S. Supreme Court has overturned a radical Clinton-appointed judge’s ruling, allowing mass layoffs and sweeping restructuring efforts across 20 federal agencies to move forward immediately.
The 8-1 ruling — with only Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson dissenting — obliterates Clinton-appointed District Judge Susan Illston’s May 22 Temporary Restraining Order, which had halted thousands of Reduction-in-Force (RIF) notices and stalled Trump’s sweeping Executive Order to downsize federal agencies.
The judge’s TRO comes in response to a lawsuit filed by the anti-American AFL-CIO and American Federation of Government Employees.
Back in February, Trump signed an executive order directing the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to conduct a top-to-bottom “critical transformation” of 20 executive-branch agencies.
The goal: eliminate redundant offices, shutter legacy programs, and slash payrolls at agencies long captured by entrenched left-wing unions.
Judge Illston outrageously claimed that President Trump required congressional permission to overhaul his own Executive Branch.
“It is the prerogative of presidents to pursue new policy priorities and to imprint their stamp on the federal government. But to make large-scale overhauls of federal agencies, any president must enlist the help of his co-equal branch and partner, the Congress,” the judge wrote in her order.
“As a group of conservative former government officials and advisors have written to the Court, “Unchecked presidential power is not what the Framers had in mind,” the radical Clinton judge said, scolding Trump’s decision to overhaul agencies in the Executive Branch.
With the Supreme Court’s green light, the Trump administration is set to resume its plan to slash unnecessary programs and eliminate up to hundreds of thousands of taxpayer-funded federal jobs.
Targets of the layoffs include:
- Department of Agriculture
- Department of Commerce
- Health and Human Services
- Department of State
- Treasury
- Veterans Affairs
- And more than a dozen additional federal bureaucracies
Reuters reported:
The U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way on Tuesday for President Donald Trump’s administration to resume carrying out mass job cuts and the restructuring of agencies, elements of his campaign to downsize and reshape the federal government.
The justices lifted San Francisco-based U.S. District Judge Susan Illston’s May 22 order that had blocked large-scale federal layoffs called “reductions in force” affecting potentially hundreds of thousands of jobs, while litigation in the case proceeds.
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The Supreme Court in recent months has sided with Trump in some major cases that were acted upon on an emergency basis since he returned to office in January.
It cleared the way for Trump’s administration to resume deporting migrants to countries other than their own without offering them a chance to show the harms they could face. In two cases, it let the administration end temporary legal status previously granted on humanitarian grounds to hundreds of thousands of migrants.
It also allowed Trump to implement his ban on transgender people in the U.S. military, blocked a judge’s order for the administration to rehire thousands of fired employees and twice sided with his Department of Government Efficiency.
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