The Supreme Court said on Tuesday that the Trump administration could go ahead with the termination of 16,000 probative federal workers in six agencies and departments, canceling an order from the lower court to what they are reinstated while the dispute contesting the dismissals continues.
In a brief unsigned order, the court said that the nine non -profit unions and groups that had challenged the layoffs lacked in the issue. “Group allegations [of harm] are currently insufficient to support the status of organizations, “said it.
Judges Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson said they would have denied Trump’s request.
The United States Supreme Court was seen on April 7, 2025 in Washington.
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A federal judge ordered the administration last month to restore affected employees of the Ministry of Veterans, the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of Energy, the Ministry of the Interior and the Ministry of the Treasury.
The Trump administration appealed to the Supreme Court for an emergency suspension of the judge’s order, arguing that the complainants lacked position and had “diverted the work relationship between the federal government and its workforce”.
The unions had asked the Supreme Court to preserve the order of the district court that these workers were reinstated due to the imminent damage that comes from the termination.
“Because probation employees include not only those who are new to government, but also those who have recently been promoted, agencies have lost experienced individuals and programs administrators and ended up with arbitrary and unexpected gaps in critical functions,” they wrote in their memory. “The reverberations in agencies and the impacts on the services were dramatic and immediate.”
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