Supreme Court Hands Trump Admin. Another Win,

They could also be formally completed with the 2024 time period, but the Supreme Court is not achieved issuing rulings when it comes to their Emergency Docket and the quite a few circumstances lodged against the Trump administration and numerous govt actions taken. 

One of the administration’s more consequential strikes was Executive Order 14210: “Implementing the President’s ‘Department of Government Efficiency’ Workforce Optimization Initiative,” which aimed to reorganize 20 federal companies, including the Departments of State, Treasury, and Veterans Affairs, as nicely as the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). In May, U.S. District Court Judge Susan Illston issued a momentary restraining order relating to the EO, adopted shortly thereafter by a preliminary injunction.

READ MORE: Federal Judge Blocks Trump’s Government Overhaul. Is It Another Case of Judicial Overreach?

The administration appealed and finally, in early June, filed an software for keep with the Supreme Court. On Tuesday afternoon, the high court granted that software, issuing the next temporary order: 

Application (24A1174) for keep introduced to Justice Kagan and by her referred to the Court is granted. The May 22, 2025 preliminary injunction entered by the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, case No. 3:25–cv–3698, is stayed pending the disposition of the appeal in the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and disposition of a petition for a writ of certiorari, if such a writ is well timed sought. Should certiorari be denied, this keep shall terminate mechanically. In the occasion certiorari is granted, the keep shall terminate upon the sending down of the judgment of this Court. The District Court’s injunction was based mostly on its view that Executive Order No. 14210, 90 Fed. Reg. 9669 (2025), and a joint memorandum from the Office of Management and Budget and Office of Personnel Management implementing that Executive Order are illegal. Because the Government is probably going to succeed on its argument that the Executive Order and Memorandum are lawful—and because the opposite elements bearing on whether or not to grant a keep are glad— we grant the appliance. We specific no view on the legality of any Agency RIF and Reorganization Plan produced or accepted pursuant to the Executive Order and Memorandum. The District Court enjoined additional implementation or approval of the plans based mostly on its view about the illegality of the Executive Order and Memorandum, not on any evaluation of the plans themselves. Those plans will not be before this Court. Justice Sotomayor concurs. (Detached Opinion) Justice Jackson dissents. (Detached Opinion)

A pair of issues to notice right here. First, the court bases its ruling on the premise that “the Government is likely to succeed on its argument that the Executive Order and Memorandum are lawful.” In different phrases, the court believes Judge Illston has it flawed. That’s not a formal guarantee, but a good signal for the administration transferring ahead. 

Second, the court also notes that it’s not ruling on the deserves of any explicit plan as no such plan is (yet) before it — just the EO itself and the joint memorandum from the Office of Management and Budget and the Office of Personnel Management, which the court believes are lawful.  

Third, and maybe stunning to some, not only did Justice Elena Kagan agree with the bulk…but so did Justice Sonia Sotomayor. She authored a temporary concurrence: 

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR, concurring in the grant of keep.

I agree with JUSTICE JACKSON that the President can’t restructure federal companies in a method inconsistent with congressional mandates. See post, at 13. Here, however, the related Executive Order directs companies to plan reorganizations and reductions in drive “consistent with applicable law,” App. to Application for Stay 2a, and the ensuing joint memorandum from the Office of Management and Budget and Office of Personnel Management reiterates as a lot. The plans themselves will not be before this Court, at this stage, and we thus have no event to contemplate whether or not they can and will likely be carried out constant with the constraints of law. I be part of the Court’s keep because it leaves the District Court free to contemplate those questions in the first occasion.

In different phrases, she agrees with the bulk that Judge Illston bought out over her skis right here. But she’s on board with Illston assessing the precise plans once they’re set forth. 

Lone (wo)man out right here is Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, who authored a 15-page dissent. We’ve seen fairly a bit of that currently, it appears. 

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was the only dissenting vote, accusing her colleagues of a “demonstrated enthusiasm for greenlighting this President’s legally dubious actions in an emergency posture.”

With that stated, this is a strong win for the Trump administration — one other one. 

Editor’s Note: Radical leftist judges are doing all the things they will to hamstring President Trump’s agenda to make America great again.

Help us maintain these corrupt judges accountable for their unconstitutional rulings. Join CrimsonState VIP and use promo code FIGHT to get 60% off your membership.