The US Supreme Court has upheld the Trump administration's plan to fire 16,000 federal government employees who are on probation, CBS News reported.
It overturned a decision by a lower federal court in California that ordered the fired employees to be reinstated. The departments in question are Energy, Interior, Treasury, Veterans Affairs, Agriculture and the Pentagon. The Supreme Court explained this by the fact that the previous decision was based “solely on the claims of nine non-profit organizations“, which does not meet the requirements of the law.
As the TV channel notes, federal civil servants with one- and two-year probationary periods became the first victims of a large-scale campaign to reduce the state apparatus, which was initiated by the US Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), led by Elon Musk.
This is not the first such case in the American judicial system. A federal district court in Maryland is currently considering a case of 19 states that collectively challenged the Trump administration's decision to fire probationary employees.