US EditionUS Supreme Court halts reinstatement of fired federal employees
- The U.S. Supreme Court blocked a judge's order requiring the reinstatement of thousands of fired federal employees.
- U.S. Judge William Alsup's injunction aimed to reinstate 16,000 recently hired probationary employees during ongoing litigation.
- The Supreme Court's order did not address claims made by other plaintiffs in the case.
- Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented from the Supreme Court's decision.
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Supreme Court Will Allow Trump Administration to Fire 16,000 Probationary Workers
The Supreme Court will allow the Trump administration to fire 16,000 federal workers in their probationary period. Tuesday’s ruling did not determine whether the administration unlawfully fired the workers, as their union, the American Federation of Government Employees, argued in a lawsuit; instead, justices ruled 7 to 2 that the plaintiffs lacked legal standing to bring their case.
Supreme Court allows Trump administration to terminate 16,000 probationary federal workers
The Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed the Trump administration’s firing of 16,000 probationary federal employees across six agencies and departments to go forward. The high court’s 7-2 decision blocks a ruling from a lower court judge that required the government to temporarily reinstate more than 16,000 probationary employees (per CNN). In the unsigned, two paragraph opinion, the court said that the nine labor unions and nonprofit groups that br…
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Supreme Court halts lower court’s ruling on federal worker firings
The Supreme Court halted a lower court's ruling that would have reinstated thousands of probationary federal workers fired by the Trump administration. The workers were terminated earlier this year by the Office of Personnel Management as part of a broader effort to reduce the size of the federal government. The Court ruled 7-2 that nonprofit groups lacked standing to sue, blocking the reinstatement order. A decision is still pending from the U.…
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