US Supreme Court pauses rehiring of fired probationary federal employees
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- SCOTUS halted a federal judge's order mandating that fired probationary workers be rehired.
- In a 7-2 decision, the Supreme Court said the plaintiffs lacked standing to bring the lawsuit.
- It's a victory for President Trump as he aims to reduce the size of the federal workforce.
The US Supreme Court on Tuesday paused a federal judge's ruling mandating that several federal departments rehire roughly 16,000 federal employees that the Trump administration aimed to terminate.
As a result of the decision, the federal government isn't required to rehire some of the workers who were initially laid off as a lawsuit makes it way before a federal judge in California court.
In a 7-2 decision, the Supreme Court said the plaintiffs — including advocacy groups and unions — lacked standing to bring the lawsuit.
"The District Court's injunction was based solely on the allegations of the nine non-profit-organization plaintiffs in this case. But under established law, those allegations are presently insufficient to support the organizations' standing," the majority wrote.
Justices Ketanji Brown Jackson and Sonia Sotomayor dissented from the decision.