Supreme Court Is Buckling Up for a Season of Legal Showdowns Over Trump Policies
Challenges to policies on on federal spending cuts, firing independent agency heads and immigration are moving rapidly through the US legal system.
Photographer: Al Drago/BloombergThe US Justice Department is fast-tracking fights over President Donald Trump’s efforts to push the bounds of executive power, teeing up key issues for the US Supreme Court in the coming weeks or even days.
On Monday, the Trump administration asked the justices to intervene to allow federal agencies to resume mass firings of probationary employees after a San Francisco judge ordered about 16,000 reinstated. Later in the day, an appeals court heard arguments in a Washington case Trump officials have vowed to take to the high court over the use of wartime powers to deport alleged Venezuelan gang members.