The Supreme Court has approved a request for intervention by the high court and blocked a lower level court ruling that stopped the Trump administration from reducing the size of government. In an 8-1 ruling [SEE HERE] with again only Ketanji Brown Jackson in dissent, the court has stayed the lower court ruling.
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WASHINGTON – […] The Trump administration can move forward with plans to fire tens of thousands of workers across the federal government, the Supreme Court ruled Tuesday.
A judge in California had blocked the layoffs, finding that they would likely violate federal law. But the justices granted an emergency appeal from the administration seeking permission to enforce a Feb. 11 executive order that instructed agencies to carry out dramatic “reductions in force.”
In an apparent 8-1 ruling, the high court said it was not assessing the legality of any particular agency’s layoff plans, nor any moves taken so far to implement those plans. Litigation over the downsizing efforts is sure to continue. But for now, the justices said, the administration can enforce the executive order and a memo from the Office of Management and Budget implementing that EO.
The high court’s unsigned decision — which the majority explained in two terse paragraphs — lifts an injunction issued by U.S. District Judge Susan Illston, who had blocked 21 agencies from complying with the mass layoff orders.
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was the sole member of the court to record a dissent. (read more)
Justice KBJ was a radical DEI implant operation conducted by the people around former President Obama. The people around President Obama knew how stupid and ideological KBJ was about constitutional law when they organized her ascension plan. Stupidity was a feature of their agenda, not a flaw. She is an embarrassment to the court and to our nation.
While a great decision, it’s NOT as it’s being portrayed here.
First, it was only the lifting of the stay…..it was NOT a ruling on the merits.
Secondly, the merits are about Trump’s executive Order to “draw up plans” — this is NOT about executing those plans.
One step at a time….
Forward!!!!
It’s a great first step!
But again…the EO instructed “… the Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall submit a plan to reduce the size of the Federal Government’s workforce through efficiency improvements and attrition (Plan). “.
And “….Agency Heads shall promptly undertake preparations to initiate large-scale reductions in force (RIFs), consistent with applicable law, and to separate from Federal service temporary employees and reemployed annuitants working in areas that will likely be subject to the RIFs. “
But it DOES NOT direct anyone to execute the plans submitted.
And it says the plans must comply with applicable law. That is what led to this SCOTUS order
We have to start somewhere, Grasshopper. I’ve learned to not anticipate.
I’ll adopt my Scarlett personae here…
Each day will take care of itself.
Tomorrow is another day.
(And no, I am not being flip…but there is enough going on now to be concerned with, my friend. More needful situations., battle by battle. We’re in Good Hands.)
Betsy…from your keyboard to my iPad screen 😎
Blessings to you, Grasshopper. You is good people 😊
Thoughtful conservatives try not to let the perfect become the enemy of the good.
As Justice Sotomayor explained to Justice Jackson..
Sotomayor is certainly a DEI hire herself. Kagen is no better. They vote in lockstep with each other.
The choice of Jackson was scraping the bottom of the barrel when team Biden set forth their parameters for her nomination.
Why are you so skeptical and negative? Win the stay, first. Stops the lawfare dead in its tracks (for at least three to five years)
There will be no joy in Mudville tonight…
Brown Jackson has struck out 😁👍🏻
…again.
She’s the Bob Uecker of SCOTUS.
Except minus the brilliance, sense of humor, and talent across multiple media.
He was a treasure, God rest his soul.
I think he would have made a better SC justice (small “j”).
And the “wise Latina” is the Jimmah Carter of the SCOTUS.
Eternally grateful that someone dumber finally showed up to hold her beer.
Kagan is the only one w Constitutional brain cells, NOT that she fires on those brain cells on every case in front of her.
Thank You
This one of features of this site, the great people here can have different views and “debate” those views then some one comes along with a comment like yours.
Carry on
Oh by the way I’m not cleaning coffee off my keyboard.
Heck, Bob knew what a woman is/was.
Took that word right out of my mouth😀
I stumbled on a four minute audio someone had compiled of all the times in arguments where Jackson utters variations of “I don’t understand”.
FOUR MINUTES!!!
One right after another….
I stuck it for about 60 seconds.
” D” in DEI…
Dimwitted.
DEI means DIDN’T EARN IT.
Brown Jackson didn’t want to stay the lower court’s decision.
With apologies to Jackson Browne,
“Why don’t you STAY?”
Haha…I always have to stop before I post her name to get it the right way around.
Does it matter, I ask myself…
Since she says she has no idea what a woman is, not really.
If I was DEI I’d be embarrassed about Low IQ KBJ getting such a big platform.
Except they have no shame.
Note that Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski voted to confirm . . . of interest, when considering their overall behavior in other confirmation votes. Seems like there is a pattern . . .
Well, of course there’s a pattern with Collins and Murkowski. They are both anti-American supporters of the Marxist/Communist doctrine(s). They exposed their true ideological colors long ago so now it’s time for The People of both Maine and Alaska to give them the boot!
I agree. Murkowski couldn’t bring herself to vote to confirm Kavanaugh but could vote to confirm that.
Or the rope…..
They have only shallow jealousy.
Jackson is not qualified to be a judge, at any level. From her schooling to the present, she’s been a DEI selectee.
No worries on the Left. She’s expendable for The Cause. Flagrantly Stupid is just as useful here as Thoughtfully Destructive.
Sotomayor is THE most overturned district judge in history if memory serves me correctly. She too was DEI, but before the “E” was added to the mix. Between her and KJB, there’s not a lot of intellectual firepower.
THAT is a HUGE understatement!
This is what the US Senate wanted in. We saw the train wreck in slow motion thinking “no way! what a joke!” the entire time.
One needs to have standards, to realize when standards have been violated.
stupid is, stupid does!
I suspect that the rest of the judges on the Supreme Court, sans Sotomayor who is just thrilled to no longer be the dumbest member of SCOTUS, are becoming very weary of having to try to argue facts, logic, reason, or law with someone who clearly knows nothing about any of them!
But is there anything any of them can actually do about it? Or do they all, just like the rest of us, have to accept that she will be a “dissenting voice” for the next 50 years?!
It will be a wait.
But down the line,
i expect that the SCOTUS will be forced to agree that the 2020 election was stolen,
and that Biden was NEVER ELECTED,
so, therefore,
anyone appointed by Biden to the bench, including the SCOTUS, will be declared null and void for that position.
Thus the nitwit will be removed from the SCOTUS at that time.
i may not live to see it, but she won’t be there 5 years from now.
Maybe her stupidity will get that 2020 null and void ruling in play faster, before the rest of the justices lose their minds.
Can that be delivered next week?
😎
Can a magistrate, judge, or attorney weigh in? Is this likely, possible?
No, it’s not. Unfortunately.
I wish I had your optimism.! All I see is full speed ahead in this administration and no looking back. A good thing on one hand but an abrupt stop at the end!
THAT WOULD BE GREAT!!!
All government appointed and/or elected positions are subject to impeachment, correct?
She is.
But funny thing here – it requires a 2/3 majority in both houses.
See below. Maybe the autopen will save us from Katastrophe.
I wonder if there is any ‘leverage’?
We’ll never get that because of her high melanin level. The same reason she’s there in the first place.
There was another female judge of the same melanin level, can’t recall her name, who would have been fantastic, but she was too intelligent!
They had the chance but they said there was no standing. Or they could rule that the atropine is invalid and get rid of everything Biden did. They won’t…
Autopen…
Atropine for autopen … Spellcheck AI’s brilliance on display.
It’s looking like stormy weather incoming for written English …
What is really funny is that it is not a giant step up from Jumanji to Sortamanure.
If you’re going to make a career out of being stupid, you might as well showcase it from the highest bench.
Good one, JoeS!!!
I have friends in DoD. They’re saying they expect their job offers for government employment to be re-sent in a week or two.
Doesn’t sound like a RIF to me.
Not all departments of the federal government will be firing, some like the DoD and anything to do with border defense will he hiring in a big way
The bloat in DoD is immense.
A RIF can only occur if the actual position(s) a Fed occupies goes away.
My guess is that tne DoD won’t be eliminating very many positions — although it could. But DoD is a huge employer with sub orgs everywhere — for example the following are all part of the DoD: National Security Agency; Departments of Army, Navy, Air Force; DARPA; DCAA; DFAS —- the list goes on and on.
Maybe your friends are in a part of DoD that needs certain skills? Mathematicians, for example, are always in demand at the NSA…..
Oh I know. Republican Welfare, we call it.
I work at a DoD site.
My job is compliance-driven, as are most of the positions in my unit.
About 20% of the Fed workers here took the early retirement.
Contractors do the heavy lifting. The GOV employees are program managers for the most part.
From where I sit, there was a Fed hiring freeze, but the contracted positions are still being filled as they open.
Ah yes, the contractors. That is how DoD circumvents any restrictions on personnel or mission.
It’s also how most of the work that needs to get done, gets done.
The last big RIF here was in 1998. Mostly due to the massive amounts of fraud, waste and abuse by DA civilians.
I am on the ground with these people every day.
I am neither a DAC or a contractor, by the way.
my BODY MY CHOICE ONLY COUNTS WHEN ABORTIONS ARE DEFENDED …against any rational, logical, rational, moral basis.
you lost lost because the economy was the candidate was autopen originated…a moron, a corpse . installed BY a secret police spy state that needs to be buried in full daylight HOURS!
buried.
are you afraid…do NOT BE AFRAID…you KNOW THE TRUTH.
you can do this.
God Bless America
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/rz8CN3qn2qo
That’s fantastic!
Wow, talk about the truth hurting! Exploding heads are incoming. Thanks, that was fantastic. Have a wonderful and blessed Wednesday.
we can’t even get a baseline conservative judge approved… and they get the most extreme leftists they can find zipped through no problem.
This is not news, I know… just frustrating.
“We” fail because republican’ts vote with their respective oligarch masters who are not in sync the way that demoncrap oligarchs are.
They got the most extreme leftist in because of her melanin levels (similarly to how they got the totally unvetted obumma in).
The RINOs couldn’t possibly vote against her because they didn’t want to be called racist. The truth is, they’re probably really the racists and voted for her to show they’re not.
They would’ve voted for her if she was a black beach ball.
“She is an embarrassment to the court and to our nation.”
My mother watches Jesse Watters on FNC, this evening he aired a few choice clips of an “interview” KBJ did for ABC news that aired this past Monday.
That few minutes proved the point made in the quote above.
I would really like those minutes back.
I saw that. Good Lord but she’s barely more functional than Word Salad Harris. Frightening that this… person …. Is a Supreme Court Justice. She’s as stupid as she is Marxist.
IMO what is scarier is the Senators that voted to confirm her to that position.
I hear that KBJ thought that the Supreme Court was just like a regular court, except it has Sour Cream, Lettuce and Tomato.
She thought she was applying for a pro basketball team.
She thinks the Electoral College is an institution of higher learning
Thank you, Sundance.
So refresh my memory please on the vote in the Senate to confirm this justice??? How many true patriots saw her record and heard her testimony and voted no?? We the people unfortunately have no one to blame but the representatives we elect when this type of person reaches the highest level of their profession.
We need to fire 545 people in DC.
I just heard the vote rehashed on a RAV show. Turns out she was confirmed by only a majority of 53 in the Senate.
All DementoRats of course drooled all over themselves with joy to vote for her.
And who were the three who made the difference?
The RINO twins – Collins and Murkowski – and Mitt Romney.
Thank God we didn’t elect him President.
She is the auto-pen DEI Supreme Court Nominee.
Kit Brown is an embarrassment to the human race.
Let’s see if the 9th circuit takes the words to heart. I’m going to paraphrase, The district court ruled the EO and the memorandum were unlawful. The justices say both the EO and memorandum are lawful.
The 9th circuit, oh boy.
OMG!!!
The Trump Administration has done something right!
It must be a miracle or just an accident!
Right?
Okanogan
July 8, 2025 9:30 pm
OMG!!!
The Trump Administration has done something right!
It must be a miracle or just an accident!
Right?/s
KBJ is Paul D Ryan’s SIL by marriage… she could be nothing other than dumb as a box of rocks. Except less useful.
As in Paul Ryan, former Speaker of the House slimeball?
That’s the one!
We got a lot of Gavin and Nancy type connections in all tiers of government. Wait until you go into your local courthouse or figure out how a city is run.
So much incest…so little country.
Every time I see an American born black person with a fake African name, we know the parents were idiots buying into the fake narrative defined in the fiction story called “Roots.”
Everything which follows is a box of rocks tumbling down a mountain trying to reach the bottom from where they started.
They never move up!
I remember when Collins, Murkowski and Romney voted with the democrats to put KBJ on the SCOTUS. What a bunch of doofuses those three are.
It would not have made any difference. If the vote was 50/50 on party lines, Kamel-hair would have cast the deciding tie-breaker vote for KBJ.
yep. I have seen her type before in action and its something to avoid if you can.
Never get a speeding ticket.
To supercharge our Recovery we need POTUS to:
1. Accept 90% of Phase 1 DOGE cuts ($200 B) via rescission
2. Direct Phase 2 DOGE cuts
3. More layoffs
4. Fully staff Harmeet Dhillon at DOJ Civil Rights who is slaying political correctness
Harmeet has been a pleasant surprise.
Pleasant, but not a surprise. Some people want to be American and want this country to succeed.
“
She is an embarrassment to the court and to our nation.”
So is our Senate that confirmed her.
Idiocracy.
I just have to laugh a little, sometimes. The Chief Executive Officer of the US Government issued a very sensible and reasoned Executive order.
Notice that he did not tell them “what to do.” Instead, he told them “what to achieve.”
He was acting entirely within his appointed role and authority, and he was demonstrating his enormous business experience in so doing. Well … this is how you become a billionaire …
Each subordinate executive now has a clear “goal state,” with the command to promptly achieve it “according to law.” Each subordinate must now first devise, and then, when instructed, execute the plan to do so, each within his or her realm. “According to law.” Meanwhile: The Chief Executive did not say further. Nor did he need to.
Here we are witnessing the very-top-level business executive experience that very few Presidents have actually had. (Jimmy Carter also had it, although his business was “agriculture.”)
In Trump’s world, you have: negotiation, and delegation. “And that’s how you live or die.” Today, we see this same experience and skills being applied in a completely different – yet, very comparable – venue. “This is much more than ‘politics.'” And, final success does not(!!) rest upon “just one person.” There must be a team.
There’s really a huge “impedance mismatch” going on here. “DC” really has no idea how to respond to this.
1) Well, now….the first…wait for it…”auto-pen” US Supreme Court Justice continues to distinguish herself!
2) F-Schedule or BUST
There is a reason why Ketanji didn’t have to release her LSAT grades. I have worked with many DEI attorneys while in state government. It is amazing. There is no way some of these people passed the BAR exam.
Judge Brown was on with Alex Jones. He, and Alex, said that President Trump is using the Epstein files to blackmail. Funny how the Supreme Court keeps coming through for him, isn’t it?
Remember, there was a John Roberts on the flight manifests. President Trump is so smart. He knows that getting his agenda passed is the most important thing. More important than going after Johns. He really puts America first.
I read this whole comment section and it was refreshing that not one poster mentioned the name “Epstein.” You just had to go and ruin it for me lol.
The bar exam is Pass/Fail. A lot of people barely scrape through, sometimes after multiple tries.
It would be wise, I think, to go after the johns, at least after other things are cleaned up. THEY are the problem behind everything else!!!
agree. Degrading our country was always part of the Obamao plan.
I hope President Trump gets at least two more SCOTUS picks 😁
Hip hip Hurray.
Return education back to the States.
There is no one fits all solutions to the educational landscape. The wasteland that it is.
What Montana finds works in the State, may not be what is needed in Kentucky or South Carolina. But one thing is for sure throwing Education back to the States will certainly be improvement with 50 concurrent experiments of finding out what actually works to improve the educational outcomes.
Outcomes that are so laughable if it was not so pathetic. Only 30% of Eighth graders reading at an eighth grade level. Just what the flipping cryout loud message does that send to the world where the preeminent Nation on the planet can’t even field a future generation of citizen’s up to the task.
Educational excellence is MAGA level national security interests. Just as economic America First has been equated with National Security.
In my fifth-grade year, for about a month we shared a classroom with a student who was “entirely uncomfortable.” He had failed to pass “fifth grade!” He was then the most-motivated student in the room, and yes, he was in due time allowed to re-join his classmates.
But, “by gawd,” he had failed. And I daresay that he never forgot that experience.
Could we dare to replicate this “life experience” today? I doubt it … “Pity.”
This year, 2025, marks the first time that Georgia Law has directed all public schools to teach cursive writing to ALL STUDENTS, beginning at the elementary level.
This is a big deal.
It is a HUGE deal. Writing cursive helps, among other things, to develop the brain!
One of our brightest legal minds….be afraid, be very afraid. Quick somebody offer her a piece on Broadway.
Offer her a Billion dollars to step down!
She is a moron on the level of Kamala
this was purely a DEI hire of a black lady unfit for SCOTUS… even Kagan had to school her today. She must have no moral conscience, dignity or shame, else she would resign for the good of our Republic.
since this was yet another Obama scheme, can he b denaturalized and deported back to kenya? Anyone?
Nice the President is gaining some wins .. but it sucks and is telling that the Supreme Court is not using these opportunities to issue rulings to stop these BS cases.
Other than Justice Barret’s snide non-legal remark v/v Jackson-Brown, 2-wwek ago, not a single LEGAL note nor opinion has been WRITTEN that hints the courts even “recognize” the political activism involved.
So how many overturns of a single judges order pending appeal, at the Federal Circuit Level, does this make??
It is just not the 9th Circuit where the “pending appeals” are going to surface and the Circuit Courts where these appeals are pending are not friendly to President Trump.
Just get this feeling some sort of coordinated effort is being set up between these courts and Supreme Court via their Supreme Court Justice Supervisors to hatch some massive Judicial assault of court battles and losses just in time for the 2026 Mid-Terms .. to generate headlines and issues favoring the democrats and RINO’s.
You’re thinking too much…
Actually, I think SCOTUS is getting fed up with the Lawfare. They know that Trump will file emergency petitions to every activist judge’s stay. Barrett’s opinion in Trump v. DACA could have been more forceful, but that all six in the majority joined in was a signal.
Not every got it. A MA judge just ordered that Congress continue to fund Planned Parenthood. The judicial branch telling the legislative branch that it must appropriate money for a certain matter. She’s a DEI Obama judge, of course.
Perhaps … the only way to stop this madness is to finally thrust it over the cliff’s edge.
Until then, perhaps, it will not be recognized nor confronted(!) as madness.
“A single Judge, in Massachusetts,” now issues “orders” to Congress? Perhaps it is only then … that the wisdom of our system of Governance will be realized. (And: the deficiencies that Madison introduced to it.)
In a similar fashion, a “prodigal son” did not understand the error of his ways until he was confronted face-to-face with a pig … an animal which easily could have killed him on the spot. Only then did he remember who he always was.
The Congress has 100% control over the inferior courts.
As someone who has passed two bar exams (on the first try) I find it hard to believe she didn’t fail out of law school, and I find it even harder to believe that she passed a bar exam. She’s extremely ignorant of the law.
Obviously she has been a privileged DEI being since inception.
Will any of the downsizing involve the DOD which has over 700,000 civilian employees ?
Yes, she is an embarrassment.
Further, how much of an embarrassment do you have to be for the wildest of progressives, Laurence Tribe, former prof of Law at Harvard and a vaunted “legal scholar,” a “lion of the left” to write a letter to Barack Obama essentially begging him not to appoint Sonia Sotomayor because she was a “bully” and “not as smart as she thinks she is.”
Truth is, he thought she fell far short of the smarts needed for the Court.
The Wise Latina, indeed.
The next supreme court judge should at least have a background in biology. /s
Should a supreme court nominee be required to pass a basic grade school level test on constitutional law?
Ok. Great. Swell. Now. About that Epstein list. I’m not going to stop talking about it. They abused kids. That is an unforgivable line that was crossed. By Dems. And not just on that island. THAT is what I voted for.
While the majority used neutral, procedural language typical of judicial review, Jackson’s dissent broke from that register entirely.
🔍 She employed charged, metaphorical, and emotionally suggestive language:
• “wrecking ball” evokes uncontrolled destruction.
• “hubris” attributes moral arrogance.
• “power grab” frames lawful executive action as illegitimate.
• “deep harm,” “senseless,” “unilateral dismantling of democracy” are rhetorical escalations, not legal categories.
One of her clerks wrote that for her, imo.
Ketanji Brown Jackson, who says she boxes in her spare time to relieve tension, has my vote to enter the Special Olympics after her exit from the bench!
She is perhaps the only judge in SCOTUS history to voice her dissent for the wrong case! Yep, she wrote a 15 page dissent of Trump’s Executive Order 14210 calling for federal agencies to reorganize and reduce personnel…but Executive Order 14210 does NOT call for those agencies to reorganize anything…it only directs them to PLAN to reorganize, “consistent with applicable law!”
This was such a bonehead dissent that even a flaming liberal like Sotomayor felt obliged to explain to Ketanji that the restructuring plan Jackson is objecting to was not before the court!
But to no avail…Jackson objected anyway!
To think KBJ had to write a 15-page dissent just so people can see how stupid she is.
AFGE losing their minds again. They call Trump’s moves illegal. Of course they do. The Constitution is a block against everything the left wants to do. They friend hate it. It’s funny because when it was created, the Constitution was written specifically to inhibit the rise of the left. They already knew of the propensities of corruption. We think so many things are new when they are simply human nature and tendency to act against our own best long term interests.
The constitutional government is a largely Christian modeled body of law. If ever there was a manual for how to take a basic animal like humans and make them more than they are (without God) it’s the Christian Bible.
The point and purpose of the Constitution is to make government better by preventing accumulation of power and the removal of rights which are defined as God Given [natural] rights instead of rights defined within the Constitution itself which is prone to being redefined away as the left does with everything.
They KNEW. We need to know. And we need to remind everyone their blue hair and metal face piercings are not “new” and neither are their “new ideas.”
Dumb as a stump, only an intensely degraded intellect such as Biden
s could make this statement with a straight face, equally only a degraded amoral deviant personality such as Obamas, the by now well known hypocritical enemy to the American people, would have plotted to install such a ridiculous individual on to the Supreme Court. It appears to me that she has never read the US Constitution, although no doubt she is probably quite familar with the scribblings of Karl Marx.Perhaps if KJB gets spanked enough by the other Justices, she will learn that SCOTUS is not the platform for political views, but for legal/Constitutional issues.
Interesting, corrupt times.
KBJ , the court jester. Lord, please continue to deliver us from this auto-pen disaster of the previous presidency.
Separation of Powers. Both the legislative and judicial branches have been trying to run the Executive Branch. Trump IS the commander in chief of the military. He does NOT have to share intelligence with the branches. He does NOT have to get permission to take military action. He does NOT have to go to war if the legislative branch declares war. If rogue judges try to block his Constitutional authority, he has the right to ignore them. When rogue judges violate federal law (AEA ‘precludes judicial review) to block his Constitutional actions he has the right, and authority, to arrest and prosecute them.
The judiciary has started to attempt to boss around the legislature. From Wethal above: “A MA judge just ordered that Congress continue to fund Planned Parenthood. The judicial branch telling the legislative branch that it must appropriate money for a certain matter. She’s a DEI Obama judge, of course.”