POLITICS NEWS – Supreme Court allows Trump to go ahead with the firing of federal workers

Laila Kirkptraick, Staff Writer 

The U.S. The Supreme Court announced on Tuesday that the Trump administration is allowing the firing of 16,000 probationary federal employees for now. Without addressing the question of whether the terminations themselves were lawful, the court in an unsigned order said that the nonprofits that brought the case did not have legal standing to sue over the firing of federal employees. 

Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Kentaji Brown Jackson voted to maintain the paused firings while the case plays out in the lower courts. The court’s narrow ruling only applies to nonprofits. Tuesday’s lawsuit decided the case as a whole; nonetheless, the court’s decision will make it more difficult for groups affected by government layoffs to challenge mass firings systematically.