In yet another blow to bloated bureaucracy, the U.S. Supreme Court handed President Trump a major victory on Tuesday by blocking a lower court’s order that would have forced his administration to rehire over 16,000 federal employees across six government agencies. The unsigned order allows Trump to move full steam ahead with his plan to drain the swamp and trim Washington’s excess.
The ruling puts the brakes on a wildly overreaching injunction issued back in March by Judge William Alsup, a federal judge in California, who had demanded that the Trump administration reinstate probationary employees at agencies including Defense, Veterans Affairs, Agriculture, Energy, Interior, and Treasury. The lawsuit was brought by nine left-wing nonprofit organizations who apparently believe it’s their job to decide how many government workers the executive branch should have.
The Supreme Court, showing some long-overdue sanity, said the groups had no legal standing to sue in the first place. Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented, because of course they did, but the rest of the Court wasn’t buying the activist argument that nonprofit groups should be running federal HR decisions.
Importantly, the Court didn’t weigh in on the broader merits of the layoffs—but by staying Alsup’s ruling, they gave the Trump administration a green light to keep cutting fat from the federal payroll. If the Court eventually hears the case, the stay will remain in place until a final decision is rendered. If not, the stay lifts—but by then, Trump’s overhaul will likely be well underway.
The layoffs, according to the administration, were long overdue. Officials cited poor performance, redundancy, and the need for fiscal responsibility as core reasons for the cuts. The Department of Justice went even further, calling Judge Alsup’s ruling a clear violation of the separation of powers, with then–Acting Solicitor General Sarah Harris saying, “That is no way to run a government.”
Trump, never one to miss a beat, blasted the original ruling as yet another example of unelected judges trying to micromanage the Executive Branch. He’s not wrong. These judicial activists don’t want a president—they want a puppet.
This is just the latest win in a string of Supreme Court decisions that have sided with Trump, including his immigration policies and cuts to DEI-infested federal programs. Slowly but surely, the swamp is shrinking—and the Constitution is back in charge.
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