Trump government pulls in front of Supreme Court: Decision on layoffs

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Trump government draws in front of the Supreme Court

The US government plans to enforce drastic cuts in the state apparatus-but resistance grows. Now the supreme court should decide.

In the dispute over the drastic personnel and cost reduction in the United States authorities, the drastic personnel and cost reduction aimed at by US President Donald Trump, his government has first contacted the country’s highest court. In order to enforce the head of a authority responsible for the protection of so -called whistleblovers, the Ministry of Justice submitted an urgency application to the Supreme Court on Sunday.

With the application, the ministry assumes the decisions of subordinate authorities, which prevented the dismissal of the head of the authorities Hampton Dellinger. Dellinger heads an office that is supposed to protect reporting informants from reprisals about grievances and misconduct in authorities.

The White House had released Dellinger on February 7th. However, he complained against his termination, which was subsequently suspended by a federal court. The government then acted against this decision, but failed on Saturday before a Federal Appeal Court. The government then turned to the supreme court.

In the new application, the ministry describes the previous court decisions in the Dellinger case as “unprecedented attack on the separation of powers”. No other case is known to the applicants “in American history” in which a court had to force the president to force the president to keep an official in office.

However, Trump apparently relies on the legal disputes to ultimately be able to win his government agenda before the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court is conservatively dominated. Three of the conservative judges there had been nominated by Trump during his first term (2017-21).