
Credit: Fred Schilling, Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States.
The U.S. Supreme Court has temporarily blocked a lower court ruling that sought to undermine one of the former president’s most critical reform initiatives: the power to remove entrenched federal bureaucrats who obstruct executive authority and resist change.
According to Bloomberg, the high court’s decision, which came over the objections of two dissenting justices, blocked a lower judge’s order that would have forced the reinstatement of employees axed from six government departments.
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