The unsigned order from the high court allows the Trump administration to carry out the president’s Feb. 13 executive order demanding “large-scale reductions in force” to take place across

A ruling from the Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed the administration of President Donald Trump to proceed with plans for mass layoffs of federal workers. The plans had been held up thanks to a lower court order blocking the effort. The Supreme Court overruled that order, clearing the way for Trump’s plans to move forward.

The New York Times Supreme Court reporter Adam Liptak recaps this Supreme Court term, which was defined by a disproportionate amount of emergency docket cases. Liptak explains why these cases tended to go in the Trump administration’s favor.