On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court quietly unlocked the gates for what may become the most aggressive rollback of the federal workforce in modern U.S. history. In an unsigned order, the justices lifted a lower-court injunction that had blocked President Trump's effort to launch mass layoffs across multiple federal agencies.
This decision didn't come after oral arguments or a formal ruling. It arrived through the Court's increasingly familiar emergency process—no public debate, no written reasoning from the majority. But its consequences could be sweeping.
