The Supreme Court halted a lower court order on Tuesday that would have forced the Trump administration to reinstate thousands of fired federal workers.
The Trump administration asked the justices in March to block an order issued by Clinton-appointed U.S. District Court Judge William Alsup directing the reinstatement of over 16,000 probationary employees.
The organizations that brought the lawsuit made allegations that are “presently insufficient to support the organizations’ standing,” the order states. Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson would have denied the request.
Acting Solicitor General Sarah Harris wrote in the government’s March 24 application that one judge should not be able to control “the Executive Branch’s powers of personnel management on the flimsiest of grounds and the hastiest of timelines.
“That is no way to run a government,” she wrote. “This Court should stop the ongoing assault on the constitutional structure before further damage is wrought.”
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