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Court orders rehiring
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A judge ordered the Trump administration to reinstate roughly 16,000 probationary federal employees, a blunt rebuke to the White House’s mass-layoff push and to Elon Musk’s slash-and-burn government-cutting crusade. The ruling suggested the administration’s rapid-fire purge was not just cruel and chaotic but unlawful. For a team obsessed with projecting power, getting ordered by a court to put people back on the payroll is a noisy reminder that there are still rules, and some judges are willing to enforce them.
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Supreme Court scramble
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The administration asked the Supreme Court to narrow lower-court blocks on Trump’s birthright-citizenship order, a sign that the White House was already looking for emergency relief from a legal strategy that hit the rocks almost immediately. The filing did not try to hide the stakes: the government wanted at least parts of the order to take effect while the larger constitutional fight continues. That is a pretty stark admission that the administration’s signature immigration move is stalled by judges in multiple places and needs an assist from a high court that has not exactly rushed to bless it.
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