- Appeals court denies White House bid to stay May 22 decision
- Ruling prevents Trump administration from shedding jobs, shuttering offices
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White House likely to ask Supreme Court to pause May ruling
May 30 (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Friday refused to allow President Donald Trump’s administration to carry out mass layoffs of federal workers and a restructuring of agencies, leaving a lower court order in place that blocked the sweeping government overhaul.
The decision by the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals means that, for now, the Trump administration cannot proceed with plans to shed tens of thousands of federal jobs and shutter many government offices and programs.
I get what you’re saying, but its a headline though. Re-writing it to be more clear might require editorializing it or make it too long to be a headline. The headline itself in your example appears to be a statement of fact without any editorializing.
Another point of confusion is fewer context clues in the headline between a word or word group being a noun or verb. Example:
Appeals court
With no context clues, its impossible to tell if this is a proper noun (the court that handles the appeals process) or a verb plus direct object (a person appealing a court ruling in the present tense)
They could just hyphenate it, “Court refuses to overturn stay – Federal downsizing still on hold”.
Yes, but which court? That version contains less information. Appellate? Supreme? The original headline communicates how far along it is in the judicial process. Also, who, in your version, is attempting to downsize the Federal government? trump? Congress? It doesn’t say.
If only there was a way to provide more information to readers. I guess we’ll have to just deal with our headlines only society and never get more than superficial context to anything. 🤷
Yep, I don’t disagree. Welcome to the short attention span of 2025.