Overview

• The Supreme Court’s unsigned emergency order overturned Judge Illston’s block on mass layoffs and revived President Trump’s February executive directive.
• The order reinstates plans for workforce reductions and agency reorganizations across 19 departments under the Department of Government Efficiency.
• Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented, warning that the decision greenlights legally questionable emergency actions.
• At least 75,000 federal employees have taken deferred resignations and thousands of probationary staff have been dismissed since the cuts began.
• Labor unions and watchdog groups have filed new lawsuits disputing Trump’s authority to implement the cuts without congressional approval as lower courts prepare to reassess the order.