# Trump v. AFGE > [!note] Stub > This is a short entry that hasn't been fully written yet. **An unsigned Supreme Court order of 8 July 2025** granting the government's emergency application for a stay, with Justice Sotomayor concurring and Justice Jackson dissenting alone in a fifteen-page opinion criticising the use of the emergency docket. The order lifted a district court's preliminary injunction against [[Executive Order 14210]] of February 2025, which directed agencies to prepare large-scale reductions in force, and against the budget- and personnel-office memorandum that required every agency to submit a two-phase reduction-and-reorganization plan for approval. The Court said the government is "likely to succeed on its argument that the Executive Order and Memorandum are lawful." The limit is what makes the order load-bearing rather than dispositive. The Court added that it "express[es] no view on the legality of any Agency RIF and Reorganization Plan," and that those plans "are not before this Court." The question of whether a President may direct the internal reorganization of agencies without congressional authorization was therefore left open, and the litigation continued over the plans themselves: on 5 January 2026 the Ninth Circuit denied rehearing in a related mandamus proceeding, over a dissent from five judges, leaving in place a panel decision that had refused to block an order requiring the agency plans to be produced for the court to read and had vacated the preliminary injunction. ## See also - [[Executive Order 14210]] · [[Reduction in Force]] · [[AFGE]] - [[How a Federal Agency Is Dismantled]] · [[How an Agency Reorganizes Itself Without Congress]] - [[Separation of Powers]] · [[Unitary Executive Theory]] · [[Second Trump Administration]]