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Emergency application

Donald J. Trump, President of the United States v. Mary Boyle

Granted
No. 25A11Stay applicationFiled by the federal governmentPresented to The Chief JusticeFrom United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

What did the Court do?

The Court granted the request on July 23, 2025: the lower court's ruling is on hold while the appeal continues.

Emergency rulings are temporary and do not decide the underlying case. Justice Kagan, Justice Sotomayor, and Justice Jackson would have ruled the other way.

Filed Ruled 21 days after filing

What's being asked

The federal government asks the Supreme Court to pause (stay) a lower-court ruling from the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit while the appeal continues. The case is Donald J. Trump, President of the United States v. Mary Boyle.

What the Court did

Application (25A11) for stay presented to The Chief Justice and by him referred to the Court is granted. The application is squarely controlled by <i>Trump</i> v. <i>Wilcox</i>, 605 U. S. ___ (2025). Although our interim orders are not conclusive as to the merits, they inform how a court should exercise its equitable discretion in like cases. The stay we issued in <i>Wilcox</i> reflected “our judgment that the Government faces greater risk of harm from an order allowing a removed officer to continue exercising the executive power than a wrongfully removed officer faces from being unable to perform her statutory duty.” <i>Ibid</i>. (slip op., at 1). The same is true on the facts presented here, where the Consumer Product Safety Commission exercises executive power in a similar manner as the National Labor Relations Board, and the case does not otherwise differ from <i>Wilcox</i> in any pertinent respect. The June 13, 2025, order of the United States District Court for the District of Maryland, No. 8:25–cv–01628, ECF Doc. 25, is stayed pending the disposition of the appeal in the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and disposition of a petition for a writ of certiorari, if such a writ is timely sought. Should certiorari be denied, this stay shall terminate automatically. In the event certiorari is granted, the stay shall terminate upon the sending down of the judgment of the Court. Justice Kavanaugh concurs. (Detached <a href = 'https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/25a11_2cp3.pdf'>Opinion</a>). Justice Kagan, joined by Justice Sotomayor and Justice Jackson, dissents. (Detached <a href = 'https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/preliminaryprint/606US2PP_Ord.pdf#page=70'>Opinion</a>)

Concurring · 1agreed with the result, wrote separately
  1. Kavanaugh
Dissenting · 3recorded against the Court's order
  1. Sotomayorjoined Kagan's writing
  2. Kaganwrote a dissent
  3. Jacksonjoined Kagan's writing
Vote not published · 5the order does not say how they voted
  1. Thomas
  2. Roberts
  3. Alito
  4. Gorsuch
  5. Barrett
The order records the positions of 4 of 9 justices. The Court usually does not say how each justice voted on an emergency application, so the rest are shown as not published.
Days from filing to a ruling for 46 rulings on applications where the Court asked for a response since January 1, 2025. The band is the middle half, the tick the median, and the mark this application: ruled 21 days after filing.

What it means

This is a temporary order about what happens while the case is decided, not a ruling on who is right. The case continues in the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.

Separate writings

  • Justice Kagan, joined by Justice Jackson and Justice Sotomayor, dissenting

Sources

Facts on this page come from the Supreme Court docket, orders, and opinions for No. 25A11. The answers restate that record in plain words; explainer copy is written from the record and the filings only.

Checked September 25, 2026