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The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected an appeals court\u2019s effort to investigate whether the Trump administration has effectively neutered the law undergirding the federal civil service on procedural grounds.<\/p>\n

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Last year, a three-judge panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit revived a 2020 lawsuit filed by the National Association of Immigration Judges challenging a policy barring its members from speaking or writing publicly about immigration in their personal capacities.<\/p>\n

The union alleged that the so-called \u201cgag rule,\u201d first issued in 2017, made more restrictive in 2020 and revised again in 2021, violated the judges\u2019 free speech rights. But a district court judge dismissed the case in 2023, finding that they must first challenge the policy before the Merit Systems Protection Board.<\/p>\n

But last year, the Fourth Circuit panel issued a ruling that revived the case, instructing the lower court to examine whether the Trump administration\u2019s push to fire political leaders at independent agencies like the MSPB and U.S. Office of Special Counsel had \u201cso undermined\u201d the 1978 Civil Service Reform Act as to deny federal workers meaningful review of agency actions.<\/p>\n

Both the Trump administration and the immigration judges\u2019 union asked the Supreme Court to intervene in the case. In a ruling Tuesday, the court reversed the appellate judges\u2019 decision and sent the case back to them for further proceedings.<\/p>\n

In an unsigned opinion, the court found that the Fourth Circuit could not issue its decision questioning the CSRA\u2019s continued viability because neither party raised it as an argument before the judges. There were no noted dissents.<\/p>\n

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\u201cAs [NAIJ] conceded below, our precedent establishes that Congress, through the CSRA, intended to channel covered claims to the MSPB,\u201d the justices wrote. \u201cThe parties thus confined their arguments to the narrow question whether respondent\u2019s claims were, in fact, covered. Unsatisfied with rejecting respondent\u2019s arguments on that question, however, the Fourth Circuit sua sponte addressed a much broader one and remanded for further proceedings on that question.\u201d<\/p>\n

Justices Clarence Thomas and Amy Coney Barrett issued a concurring opinion stating that they would have also decided the case in favor of the Trump administration on the merits, as well.<\/p>\n

\u201cNeither the president\u2019s view that he can remove federal executive officials, nor his having done so, change the meaning of the statute or the binding nature of this court\u2019s interpretation of it,\u201d they wrote. \u201c\u2019Conditions may have changed, but the statute has not.\u2019 Courts may not \u2018rewrite the statutory scheme in order to approximate what we think Congress might have wanted had it known that\u2019 the president or courts may conclude that its removal restrictions were \u2018beyond its authority.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

In a statement Tuesday, NAIJ President Holly D\u2019Andrea said that while her union was disappointed in the decision, it would continue to fight the Justice Department\u2019s gag rule as the litigation moves forward.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe case has been remanded to the Fourth Circuit, and NAIJ will continue fighting to protect the free speech rights of immigration judges, to seek meaningful review of the Executive Office for Immigration Review\u2019s speech policies, and to ensure that immigration judges may engage in public discourse on immigration matters in their personal capacities,\u201d she said. \u201cJustice cannot endure when judges are intimidated into silence, nor can a nation remain free when the rule of law is subordinate to the whims of political ambition.\u201d<\/p>\n

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