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Here we go again:
The U.S. Supreme Court has granted another emergency stay request from the Trump-Vance administration to stay the injunction two lower courts had approved in AFGE v. Trump that halted the unlawful reorganization of the federal government. The court’s decision permits the administration to continue with plans to restructure federal agencies using Agency Reductions in Force and Reorganization Plans, despite the absence of the required congressional authorization. The court specifically did not weigh in on the legality of the agency plans themselves. The case will continue and counsel are considering next steps.
The coalition bringing the case, which includes labor unions, non-profit organizations, and cities and counties in California, Illinois, Maryland, Texas, and Washington, is represented by lead co-counsel Democracy Forward and Altshuler Berzon LLP, Protect Democracy, Public Rights Project, and Democracy Defenders Fund.
The coalition released the following statement in response to the court’s decision:
“Today’s decision has dealt a serious blow to our democracy and puts services that the American people rely on in grave jeopardy. This decision does not change the simple and clear fact that reorganizing government functions and laying off federal workers en masse haphazardly without any congressional approval is not allowed by our Constitution. While we are disappointed in this decision, we will continue to fight on behalf of the communities we represent and argue this case to protect critical public services that we rely on to stay safe and healthy.”
A big problem here is that our fascist-friendly SCOTUS is using super boring and complex procedural hijinks to ram through Donald Trump’s legislative wish list, absent that pesky legislation.
The short version is that about five minutes after Trump became president, Chief Justice Balls & Strikes started using a procedure that previously had been pretty much confined to emergency appeals in death penalty cases, to let Trump do whatever the hell he wanted without having to actually win any cases or pass any laws. The trick was to get rid of injunctions in the preliminary stages of lawsuits, by claiming both that the administration had a very high chance of eventually winning the case, AND claiming that considerations of basic justice and the public interest argued powerfully in favor of letting the Trump administration do whatever the hell it wanted right now.
This is the shadow docket, and you can take three guesses regarding whether this same standard has been applied to what rumour has it was a Democratic presidential administration in the interim, and the first two don’t count.
The added extra bonus is that the cited procedure doesn’t require Their Imperial Legal Eminences to reveal how they voted, let alone provide any explanation for their decisions, which again can be summed up as Donald Trump can do whatever the hell he wants, but other presidents not so much.
Steve Vladeck has just published a whole book about this, which I haven’t yet had the stomach to read.