US supreme court blocks ruling that 16,000 fired federal workers must be rehired
by Robert Tait from US news | The Guardian on (#6WG27)
Probationary employees laid off in Trump administration's purge lose reinstatement in 7-2 ruling over legal standing
The US supreme court has handed Donald Trump a reprieve from a judge's ruling that his administration must rehire 16,000 probationary workers fired in its purge of the federal bureaucracy.
A day after ruling in the White House's favor to allow the continued deportation of alleged Venezuelan gang members, the court gave the White House a less clear-cut victory in halting the order by a California court that dismissed workers from six government agencies must be rehired.
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