SCOTUS Halts Reinstatement Of Fired Federal Workers

Courthouse News reports:

President Donald Trump triumphed at the Supreme Court on Tuesday, receiving an emergency pause to the reinstatement of thousands of probationary federal employees terminated in a firing spree. The justices said a lower court ordered Trump to rehire employees based solely on the accusations of nine nonprofit organizations, which the high court found insufficient to support the organizations’ standing.

Justice Sonia Sotomayor, a Barack Obama appointee, and Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, a Joe Biden appointee, would have denied the application. Jackson noted that she wouldn’t have weighed in on the organizations’ standing on the emergency docket. Her reasoning mirrors a separate emergency appeal where she critiqued her conservative colleagues for deciding legal questions without full briefing and oral arguments.

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