By John Wojcik and Mark Gruenberg
Photos: Wikimedia Commons
WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court has allowed President Trump to destroy union contracts covering a million federal workers by nullifying a lower court hold on his mass firings and destruction of numerous government agencies. By sending the lawsuit by unions back down to lower courts for a trial, the High Court effectively allows the Trump administration, while disregarding Congress, to carry out its destruction of the federal workforce and the agencies they operate.
The court’s sole dissenter, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, pointed out that the decision allows unconstitutional behavior because it permits the president to kill programs and government infrastructure put in place by Congress, the only branch of government the Constitution allows to write laws.
She also said the ruling will let Trump deprive people of basic government services. The court majority, she declared, calls Trump’s executive order against the unions and workers lawful “by ignoring what the government is actually doing,” firing thousands of workers and smashing agencies put in place by laws enacted by Congress.
The justice predicted the harm from the majority’s ruling “will be immensely painful to the general public.” Harms “include proliferating foodborne disease, perpetuating hazardous environmental conditions, eviscerating disaster loan services for local businesses, and drastically reducing healthcare and other services to our nation’s veterans,” she wrote… READ MORE…
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