In the 49-page ruling, Judge Gregory G. Katsas of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, a Trump appointee, wrote that Judge Amy Berman Jackson of the Federal District Court in Washington had no jurisdiction to block the Trump administration’s efforts to lay off about 1,500 of the C.F.P.B.’s 1,700 workers.

The police chief called Bondi's order a threat to law and order in D.C. As President Donald Trump heads to Alaska for his high-stakes meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, the president's crime-reduction push in Washington,