JUST IN: Supreme Court Delivers Another Major Victory For Trump, DOGE
In a major win for President Donald Trump, the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday blocked a lower court order that would have forced his administration to rehire over 16,000 federal employees across six government agencies. The brief, unsigned decision gives Trump the green light to move forward with his plan to reduce the federal workforce, a key element of his effort to streamline Washington.
The high court’s ruling halts a March 13 injunction issued by U.S. District Judge William Alsup in California. That order had directed the Trump administration to reinstate probationary employees at the Departments of Defense, Veterans Affairs, Agriculture, Energy, Interior, and Treasury.
Alsup’s decision stemmed from a lawsuit brought by nine nonprofit organizations, which challenged the legality of the terminations. But in Tuesday’s order, the Supreme Court said those organizations lacked the legal standing to sue.
The justices stayed Alsup’s injunction pending the outcome of an appeal at the Ninth Circuit and a potential review by the Supreme Court itself, should a petition for certiorari be filed. If the Court declines to hear the case, the stay will automatically be lifted.
If it does take the case, the stay remains in effect until the Court issues its final judgment. In dissent, Justice Sonia Sotomayor said she would have denied the application for a stay. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson also dissented, questioning why the Court was intervening at this stage of the legal process.
However, the majority did not weigh in on the broader merits of the case or the claims made by other plaintiffs.
The Trump administration has defended the layoffs as part of a legitimate effort to overhaul federal operations and boost accountability. Officials have cited poor performance reviews and budget efficiency as justification for the terminations. The Department of Justice had sharply criticized Alsup’s ruling, calling it a violation of the separation of powers between the executive and judicial branches.
The Supreme Court’s ruling focused solely on the arguments brought by nonprofit organizations, since those were the basis of Alsup’s original decision. However, separate claims filed by a union could still spark additional legal battles.
Notably, the lawsuit does not include any individual federal workers.
Alsup’s ruling “violates the separation of powers, arrogating to a single district court the Executive Branch’s powers of personnel management on the flimsiest of grounds and the hastiest of timelines,” then-acting Solicitor General Sarah Harris stated in court filings. “That is no way to run a government,” she added.
Trump portrayed the case as yet another instance of federal judges overreaching into matters he argued belong to the executive branch.
“The district court’s extraordinarily over broad remedy is now inflicting ongoing, irreparable harm on the Executive Branch that warrants this Court’s urgent intervention,” said Sarah Harris, who was serving as the administration’s acting solicitor general at the time, in a filing to the Supreme Court.
This marks yet another courtroom win for the Trump administration. In recent weeks, the Supreme Court has issued a string of decisions siding with Trump’s agenda—rulings that have allowed the White House to advance immigration policies and curtail federal diversity programs.
Still, for now, the administration won’t be required to reinstate any of the dismissed workers, and the legal battle will continue in the lower courts.
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