US Supreme Court halts reinstatement of fired federal employees
- The Supreme Court upheld the Trump administration's mass firing of tens of thousands of federal employees, granting an emergency stay on a lower court's order to reinstate them.
- Justice Sonia Sotomayor and Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson opposed granting the emergency stay application unanimously.
- The legal dispute involves the termination of 16,000 probationary federal employees who argued the firings were unjust due to poor performance claims.
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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.
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