BREAKING: SCOTUS blocks lower court order for Trump admin to rehire thousands of fired federal workers

The Supreme Court has granted the Trump administration’s request for the high court to pause a lower court’s ruling that would have required the administration to rehire thousands of federal workers who had been fired. 

The Supreme Court’s docket stated that the application for stay that had been presented to Justice Elena Kagan and referred to the Court was granted. The preliminary injunction issued by the US District Court for the Northern District of California has been paused as an appeal in the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit plays out. 

"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 docket stated. "This order does not address the claims of the other plaintiffs, which did not form the basis of the District Court’s preliminary injunction." The docket entry stated that both Justice Sonia Sotomayor and Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson would have denied the application.

In his order, Alsup said the mass firings were part of a "sham" strategy to reduce the federal workforce, and that the administration had not gone through proper legal channels to fire them. "It is sad, a sad day when our government would fire some good employee and say it was based on performance when they know good and well that’s a lie," he wrote.