Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson stood alone in dissent as the high court voted 8-1 to allow the Trump administration’s planned mass layoffs in the federal government to move forward.
Her scathing rebuke against lifting a lower court’s injunction temporarily blocking the cuts drew sharp reactions, including from Fox News contributor and George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley.
“This is another shot across the bow to lower courts,” Turley said on “Fox & Friends” Wednesday. “They’ve got to knock this off. They’ve got to stop with these injunctions.”
The layoffs are part of the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency agenda and the White House’s larger effort to downsize the federal government.
In February, federal agencies were warned to prepare for large-scale job cuts. Later that month, a memo circulated calling the current federal workforce “costly, inefficient, and deeply in debt.”
Critics of the plan argued it could result in thousands of job losses and damage essential public services. Advocacy groups filed legal challenges and a lower court issued a temporary block on the layoffs, a move the Supreme Court has now reversed.
Justice Jackson issued a biting dissent to the court’s intervention.
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