Supreme Court OKs Trump’s mass layoffs of federal employees across more than a dozen agencies

[Earl]

Supreme Court OKs Trump’s mass layoffs of federal employees across more than a dozen agencies​

Russ Vought, then acting director of the Office of Management and Budget, gives a news conference at the White House in 2019.
(Evan Vucci / Associated Press)

By David G. Savage
Staff Writer Follow
July 8, 2025 1:24 PM PT

• The court has sided regularly with President Trump and his broad view of executive power on matters involving federal agencies.
• Dissenting alone, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson said the court should not have intervened.

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court cleared the way Tuesday for the Trump administration to lay off tens of thousands of federal employees and downsize their agencies without seeking the approval of Congress.

In an 8-1 vote, the justices lifted an order from a federal judge in San Francisco who blocked mass layoffs at more than 20 departments and agencies.

The court has sided regularly with President Trump and his broad view of executive power on matters involving federal agencies.

In a brief order, the court said “the Government is likely to succeed on its argument that the Executive Order and Memorandum are lawful,” referring to the plans to reduce staffing. But it said it was not ruling on specific layoffs.

Justice Sonia Sotomayor concurred with the decision on the grounds that it was narrow and temporary.

Dissenting alone, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson said the court should not have intervened.

“Under our Constitution, Congress has the power to establish administrative agencies and detail their functions,” she wrote.

Supreme Court OKs Trump's mass layoffs of federal employees across more than a dozen agencies

The Supreme Court's conservatives said it was a federal judge in San Francisco, not President Trump, who exceeded her authority.

www.latimes.com

 

[Earl]

The size of government can not be reduced without reducing the size of government.

 

[Grokmaster]

Cut out the dead weight.

 

[Earl]

The FAA was always threatening RIF's (Reductions in Force) but I only remember one and it was minuscule.

The people without military service were always worried because they did not receive the five points that the ones with military service did.

 

[Earl]

, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson always votes against the Constitution and is dumb...she could not answer the question, what is a woman.

 

[FastLane]

Supreme Court OKs Trump’s mass layoffs of federal employees across more than a dozen agencies​

Russ Vought, then acting director of the Office of Management and Budget, gives a news conference at the White House in 2019.
(Evan Vucci / Associated Press)

By David G. Savage
Staff Writer Follow
July 8, 2025 1:24 PM PT

• The court has sided regularly with President Trump and his broad view of executive power on matters involving federal agencies.
• Dissenting alone, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson said the court should not have intervened.

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court cleared the way Tuesday for the Trump administration to lay off tens of thousands of federal employees and downsize their agencies without seeking the approval of Congress.

In an 8-1 vote, the justices lifted an order from a federal judge in San Francisco who blocked mass layoffs at more than 20 departments and agencies.

The court has sided regularly with President Trump and his broad view of executive power on matters involving federal agencies.

In a brief order, the court said “the Government is likely to succeed on its argument that the Executive Order and Memorandum are lawful,” referring to the plans to reduce staffing. But it said it was not ruling on specific layoffs.

Justice Sonia Sotomayor concurred with the decision on the grounds that it was narrow and temporary.

Dissenting alone, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson said the court should not have intervened.

“Under our Constitution, Congress has the power to establish administrative agencies and detail their functions,” she wrote.

Supreme Court OKs Trump's mass layoffs of federal employees across more than a dozen agencies

The Supreme Court's conservatives said it was a federal judge in San Francisco, not President Trump, who exceeded her authority.

www.latimes.com

There was never a real doubt that it was the President's right to fire them.

 

[FastLane]

, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson always votes against the Constitution and is dumb...she could not answer the question, what is a woman.

Yep she is such a moron she has replaced Sotomayor as the dumbest justice on the SC.

 

[FastLane]

The size of government can not be reduced without reducing the size of government.

The government needs to be run like a business.

 

[Grokmaster]

, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson always votes against the Constitution and is dumb...she could not answer the question, what is a woman.

She's a twit. Even her fellow leftist justices berate her nonsense.

 

[Grokmaster]

The government needs to be run like a business.

In fiscal areas, anyway.

 

[Teflon Don]

The democrat party can’t stop losing can they?

 

[Earl]

There was never a real doubt that it was the President's right to fire them.

Indeed.

He's the Chief Executive of the government..

 

[FastLane]

Indeed.

He's the Chief Executive of the government..

We have to reduce the size of government. We are WAY too deep in debt. 37 trillion is like having a $100K a year family income and owing 700K in credit card debt. It is insane. It isn't sustainable.