The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday cleared the way for Donald Trump's administration to pursue mass government job cuts and the sweeping downsizing of numerous agencies, a decision that could lead to tens of thousands of layoffs while dramatically reshaping the federal bureaucracy.

It’s now become the expectation that when cases involving presidential power grabs by Donald Trump reach the U.S. Supreme Court, he has a fast friend in the conservative majority, who are willing to bend over backwards to justify his wildly expansive views of executive authority.

The Supreme Court is allowing President Donald Trump to move forward with an executive order mandating a restructure of federal agencies and mass layoffs of workers.