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“In my view, this was the wrong decision at the wrong moment, especially given what little this Court knows about what is actually happening on the ground,” she wrote. “This case is about whether that action amounts to a structural overhaul that usurps Congress’s policymaking prerogatives—and it is hard to imagine deciding that question in any meaningful way after those changes have happened. Yet, for some reason, this Court sees fit to step in now and release the President’s wrecking ball at the outset of this litigation.”

“In my view,” Jackson wrote, “this decision is not only truly unfortunate but also hubristic and senseless.”

Justice Sonia Sotomayor concurred with the majority.

“I agree with Justice Jackson that the President cannot restructure federal agencies in a manner inconsistent with congressional mandates,” Sotomayor writes. “The plans themselves are not before this Court, at this stage, and we thus have no occasion to consider whether they can and will be carried out consistent with the constraints of law. I join the Court’s stay because it leaves the District Court free to consider those questions in the first instance.”

In February, Trump signed an executive order called “Implementing the President’s ‘Department of Government Efficiency’ Workforce Optimization Initiative,” in which he ordered sweeping cuts to the federal workforce. A subsequent memo from the White House told agencies to prepare for the cuts.

A federal judge in California in May paused the administration’s efforts to downsize the government. The government appealed that decision with the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

It’s not clear how many workers the decision will affect.

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