Alex Galbraith at Salon reports the U.S. Supreme Court has given the Trump Administration the go-ahead to continue its program of mass Federal firings. In an unsigned order, the Court removed a stay on President Donald Trump’s plan to significantly slash the Federal Workforce, a scheme first laid out in a February Executive Order. The order said the Court “express(ed) no view on the legality” of the Trump Administration’s downsizing, but added the order and memo were “likely” to be found “lawful” if the case comes before the High Court. No tally was given in the Court’s granting of the emergency application, but Justice Sonia Sotomayor offered a concurrence and Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson issued a dissent. The latter warned of “enormous real-world consequences” and worried the Court was giving the green light to “the dismantling of much of the Federal Government as Congress has created it.” “For some reason, this Court sees fit to step in now and release the President’s wrecking ball at the outset of this litigation,” Jackson wrote in her dissent. “In my view, this decision is not only truly unfortunate but also hubristic and senseless.” The case in question that led a Lower Court to block the Trump Administration’s actions was brought by the American Federation of Government Employees, the Union representing nearly a million Federal Workers.

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