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Trump foes press Supreme Court to reject bid to restart layoffs
Unions and other groups challenging the Trump administration's plans for large-scale layoffs are urging the Supreme Court to reject the administration's latest bid to let those layoffs proceed.
The Supreme Court should refuse the Trump administration's request to intervene, challengers said in a motion filed Monday. Their response comes after the Trump administration last week asked the justices to block a lower court's ruling that has paused layoffs across much of the government.
'If the breakneck reorganization of the federal government ordered by the President is implemented before the merits of this case may be decided based on a full record, then statutorily required and authorized programs, offices, and functions across the federal government will be abolished, agencies will be radically downsized from what Congress authorized, critical government services will be lost, and hundreds of thousands of federal employees will lose their jobs,' says the response filed by unions, conservation groups and other organizations fighting the layoffs in court.
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'There will be no way to unscramble that egg,' they added. 'If the courts ultimately deem the President to have overstepped his authority and intruded upon that of Congress, as a practical matter there will be no way to go back in time to restore those agencies, functions, and services.'
