The United States Supreme Court has cleared a path for the Trump administration to gut the federal workforce and eliminate entire federal agencies. On Tuesday, justices released an unsigned order from its “shadow docket” lifting lower court injunctions that had blocked mass layoffs and the restructuring of federal agencies — even though Congress has not authorized those plans. In a dissenting opinion, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson called the court’s lifting of the injunctions “unfortunate, hubristic and senseless.” The American Federation of Government Employees, which represents some 820,000 federal workers, said in a statement, “Today’s decision has dealt a serious blow to our democracy and puts services that the American people rely on in grave jeopardy.”