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Lower-court judges have already blocked several Trump's policies including an asylum ban at the US-Mexico border.
The Tuesday decision said that Trump's executive order directing agencies to develop workforce reduction plans is likely lawful.
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The Supreme Court on Tuesday lifted a judge’s order preventing the Trump administration from conducting mass layoffs across the federal bureaucracy, for now. The court in its unsigned ruling said
Seven lawyers who spoke with Reuters cited a punishing workload and the need to defend policies that some felt were not legally justifiable among the key reasons for the wave of departures.
OPM’s guidance offers some leeway to the Trump administration’s policy requiring most federal employees to work in the office full time.