The US Supreme Court has been busy taking the Trump Administration’s side on various issues where the lower courts have ruled against it.
The latest is the president’s firing of two labor board members, going against long-stand precedent. Federal judges quickly ordered him to reinstate the members. But the nation’s highest court, stacked with conservative judges, ordered a pause on those rulings for now.
“The U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way on Wednesday for President Donald Trump to remove Democratic members of two federal labor boards for now, putting on hold a pair of judicial orders that had shielded them from dismissal.
Chief Justice John Roberts, acting on behalf of the court, halted the orders by two Washington-based federal judges that blocked Trump’s firing of Cathy Harris from the Merit Systems Protection Board and Gwynne Wilcox from the National Labor Relations Board before their terms expire.
The court’s action, called an administrative stay, gives the nine justices additional time to consider the Trump administration’s formal request to block the judges’ orders while litigation over the firings continues.
Roberts directed lawyers for Harris and Wilcox to file a response to the government’s request by April 15.”
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