The Trump administration escalates its legal battle over federal worker firings, asking the Supreme Court to block a lower judge’s order.
The Trump administration is not backing down on its decision to fire thousands of probationary federal workers, and now it wants the Supreme Court to weigh in.
In an emergency appeal on Monday, the Justice Department asked the Supreme Court to block a California judge’s March 13 ruling that ordered the administration to rehire fired probationary workers at six federal agencies.
Acting Solicitor General Sarah Harris contested the prior ruling from US District Judge William Alsup, writing in Monday’s filing that his order had let «let third parties hijack the employment relationship between the federal government and its workforce.»
She argued that Alsup’s «extraordinary» order violated the separation of powers by challenging «the Executive Branch’s powers of personnel management on the flimsiest of grounds and the hastiest of timelines.
