Union attorneys are renewing their push for the release of agencies' RIF plans after the court found those plans could still be challenged individually.

A group of climate activists seeking to revive their lawsuit against the EPA referenced a legal opinion by Justice Samuel Alito.

The U.S. Supreme Court delivered setbacks to environmental interests in a series of recent rulings including by further restricting the Environmental Protection Agency's authority and relaxing requirements for environmental impact studies for proposed projects.

The content of those individual plans “thus remains squarely at issue in this case,” California-based U.S. District Judge Susan Illston, whose original decision led to the RIF pause, said in a new order Wednesday evening.

A court-ordered pause in May covered nearly two dozen federal agencies at different stages of executing President Trump’s directive for mass layoffs. The Supreme Court said the administration could proceed.

The U.S. State Department has begun informing hundreds of U.S.-based employees that they will be laid off “in the coming days,” following a Supreme Court decision earlier this week that cleared the way for the Trump administration to carry out mass job cuts across federal agencies.

Federal employees are anxious about losing their jobs after the Supreme Court ruled that the Trump administration could move forward with firing them, Politico reported Thursday. At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground. Your donation allows us to keep sending journalists to speak to both sides of the story.

The former dean of Harvard Law School emerges as more likely than her liberal colleagues to make common cause with conservatives.