The Trump administration has asked the US Supreme Court to allow the firing of thousands of workers after a judge ordered that they be reinstated.
President Donald Trump’s administration brought its bid to purge the federal workforce to the US Supreme Court on Monday, challenging a judicial directive to rehire thousands of fired government employees.
The Justice Department asked the Supreme Court to block a March 13 order by San Francisco-based US District Judge William Alsup for six federal agencies to reinstate thousands of probationary – meaning recently hired – employees dismissed as part of Trump’s campaign to downsize and reshape the government.
