Supreme Court allows Trump to move forward with firings at federal agencies

The administration had asked the court to step in after a judge in California blocked its plans for reductions in force and to reorganize a swath of departments and agencies.
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed President Donald Trump at least temporarily to move ahead with plans to impose reductions in force and reorganize various government agencies.
The court imposed an administrative stay in the case at the request of the Trump administration. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was the only justice to provide a written dissent.
At issue is a ruling by California-based U.S. District Judge Susan Illston, who ruled in May that while the president can seek to make changes, there are limits when they are done wholesale.
"Agencies may not conduct large-scale reorganizations and reductions in force in blatant disregard of Congress’s mandates, and a President may not initiate large-scale executive branch reorganization without partnering with Congress," she wrote.
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