Last week the U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way for Kennedy and several other Secretaries to flush the federal workforce, lifting injunctions that had temporarily blocked large-scale job cuts across multiple federal agencies.
In the unsigned order, the Court determined the administration is “likely to succeed” in asserting the executive power to fire a large portion of the federal workforce without congressional approval… yet leaving unresolved the underlying legality of specific reduction plans.
The ruling gives Trump’s Secretaries the green light to fire as many people as they want with limited judicial oversight (at least in the in the short term). The fact that they lifted the earlier injunctions suggests they have already decided the government is ‘likely to succeed’ meaning they’ve probably already made up their minds.