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July 9, 2025

Supreme Court OKs Trump's Mass Firings and Elimination of Federal Agencies
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The United States Supreme Court has cleared a path for the Trump
administration to gut the federal workforce and eliminate entire federal
agencies. On Tuesday, justices released an unsigned order from its
"shadow docket" lifting lower court injunctions that had blocked mass
layoffs and the restructuring of federal agencies - even though Congress
has not authorized those plans. In a dissenting opinion, Justice Ketanji
Brown Jackson called the court's lifting of the injunctions
"unfortunate, hubristic and senseless." The American Federation of
Government Employees, which represents some 820,000 federal workers,
said in a statement, "Today's decision has dealt a serious blow to our
democracy and puts services that the American people rely on in grave
jeopardy." 


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