Sotomayor breaks with Jackson on the Trump federal workforce plan

The dissent of judge Ketanji Brown Jackson in an order from the Supreme Court made on Tuesday was distinguished enough to invite one of his liberal colleagues to express his disagreement with her.

Judge Sonia Sotomayor, appointed from former President Barack Obama, said in brief competition that ordinance 8-1 of the High Court paved the way for President Donald Trump to continue to reduce the government was the right decision.

“I agree with judge Jackson that the president cannot restructure the federal agencies in a manner incompatible with the mandates of the congress,” wrote Sotomayor. “Here, however, the relevant decree orders agencies to plan reorganizations and strength reductions” in accordance with the applicable law “… and the joint memorandum which results from the management and budget office and the staff management office reiterates as much.”

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Associate judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is held as she and the members of the Supreme Court pose for a new group portrait after her addition to the Building of the Supreme Court in Washington on October 7, 2022. (AP photo / J. Scott Applewhite, file)

Sotomayor’s remarks were included as part of a short two -page order from the Supreme Court, saying that Trump’s decree signed in February by ordering federal agencies to plan “large -scale reductions in force (RIF), in accordance with the applicable law” was probably lawful.

The Supreme Court said that it had no opinion at this stage on the legality of any real job deletion and that this question was not before the High Court.

But Jackson felt differently, according to his dissent of 15 pages fixed to order.

Jackson, the most junior and appointed judge of former president Joe Biden, said that a judge of the lower court was right to suspend any new reduction in federal workforce. Jackson gave conferences his colleagues for thinking the opposite.

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DOSSIER – Judge of the Supreme Court Sonia Sotomayor, makes gestures as she talks about her family life as a child and what has led her to a career in the law and the author of several books, including an autobiography, “The Beloved World of Sonia Sotomayor”, August 17, 2019, at the Mississippi Book Festival in Jackson, Miss. (AP photo / Rogelio V. solis, file)

“This temporary, practical preservation and reducing the misdeeds of the status quo was not up to the demonstrated enthusiasm of this court for the green lighting of the legally questionable actions of this president in an emergency posture,” said Jackson.

Any reduction in government workforce would in addition to thousands of government employees who are already losing their jobs or choosing to accept buyout plans in the context of Trump’s declared objectives to reduce the federal government and make it work more effectively.

The Supreme Court was photographed on February 28, 2024 in Washington. (AP photo / Jacquelyn Martin, file)

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The ordinance of the Supreme Court was born from a legal action brought by non-profit organizations and organizations, which allegedly alleged that the president’s decision to considerably reduce the federal workforce has brought to the Congress Authority for the approval and financing of government jobs.

The prescription was made in an emergency and is only temporary. He will remain in place while the Trump administration calls for the trial at the American Court of Appeal for the ninth circuit.