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Lower-court judges have already blocked several Trump's policies including an asylum ban at the US-Mexico border.
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The New Republic on MSNThe Supreme Court Says Laws Aren’t RealTo cover the Supreme Court these days is to catalogue its lawlessness. The conservative justices’ latest decision in McMahon v. New York allows the president to effectively demolish the Department of Education—a Cabinet-level department that was created by Congress,
The Tuesday decision said that Trump's executive order directing agencies to develop workforce reduction plans is likely lawful.
Seven lawyers who spoke with Reuters cited a punishing workload and the need to defend policies that some felt were not legally justifiable among the key reasons for the wave of departures.