US EditionFederal Workers in Maine Face Uncertainty Following Court Ruling Allowing for Mass Layoffs
- The U.S. Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to continue with layoffs across federal agencies, lifting a lower court's injunction in an 8-1 decision.
- The ruling affects at least 21 major federal agencies, including the Departments of State, Treasury, and Transportation.
- Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented, criticizing her colleagues for enabling what she described as a 'wrecking ball' approach to federal governance.
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Trump’s cruel purge of federal workers just got even easier
The Supreme Court recently cleared the way for one of President Donald Trump’s most sweeping promises yet: slashing the federal government and the workforce that keeps it running. In a brief, unsigned order on Tuesday, the justices lifted a lower court...
Lewiston Sun Journal
Federal workers in Maine face uncertainty following court ruling allowing for mass layoffs
It's unclear how federal workers in Maine might be impacted, but the ruling allowing the Trump administration to move forward with plans for staff reductions has prompted concerns.
SCOTUS Temporarily Greenlights Trump Admin's "Critical Transformation" of Federal Bureaucracy
The United States Supreme Court issued an order Tuesday allowing the Trump Administration’s “workforce optimization” initiatives to resume for the time being while litigation is pending in the lower courts. Eight of the nine Supreme Court Justices signed Tuesday’s order. Justice Sonia Sotomayor issued a brief concurring opinion, while Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson authored a [...] The post SCOTUS Temporarily Greenlights Trump Admin’s “Critical T…
Trump Will Move Immediately to Lay Off Federal Workers
“President Donald Trump has seized the authority to lay off federal workers and reorganize the federal government in a way that critics say no president has been able to do in more than 100 years,” USA Today reports. “The power, which the Supreme Court gave temporarily in a July 8 order, puts at risk thousands of federal jobs across the country at agencies that collect taxes, provide health care to veterans, and help administer retirement benefi…
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