Making restaurant appliances and cookware at a factory in Guangzhou, China, on Wednesday. President Trump’s latest move effectively raised import taxes on Chinese goods to more than 100 percent.
In a series of narrow and technical rulings, the justices have seemed to take pains to avoid a showdown with a president who has challenged the judiciary’s legitimacy.
A slew of cases related to President Trump’s executive orders have arrived on what critics call the court’s “shadow docket,” as emergency applications requiring the justices to move very quickly, on thin briefs and no oral arguments.
A federal judge in California had ordered the Trump administration to rehire government employees fired as part of its efforts to slash the federal work force.
Thousands of federal workers who had been on probationary status were fired by the Office of Personnel Management under the direction of the Trump administration.
The chief justice, acting on his own, issued an “administrative stay,” a brief pause meant to give the court time to consider the matter. The justices are expected to act in the coming days.
The Supreme Court will consider next week whether to hear a case involving a Minnesota law that makes it a crime for people younger than 21 to carry guns in public.
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