The Supreme Court granted President Donald Trump’s administration a stay regarding the firing of federal workers.
The United States District Court for the Northern District of California ruled the administration could not fire the workers.
The administration appealed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Officials asked SCOTUS for an emergency stay on the Northern District of California’s ruling pending the disposition of the appeal in the Ninth Circuit.
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. See, e.g., Clapper v. Amnesty Int’l USA, 568 U.S. 398 (2013). This order does not address the claims of the other plaintiffs, which did not form the basis of the District Court’s preliminary injunction.
Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Kentanji Brown Jackson dissented.
Sotomayor did not explain her decision.
Jackson said the administration did not demonstrate “urgency in the form of interim irreparable harm.”
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