The Trump administration on Monday urged the Supreme Court to block a federal judge’s ruling that reinstates thousands of probationary federal employees who were dismissed as part of the government’s rapid workforce downsize efforts.
According to a CNN report, the emergency appeal is the administration’s latest attempt to seek intervention from the country’s highest court as lower courts impede significant aspects of President Donald Trump’s second-term agenda, even on a temporary basis.
In this case, a federal judge in San Francisco issued a preliminary injunction earlier this month, mandating that several federal agencies “immediately” offer over 16,000 probationary employees their positions back.
“The district court’s extraordinarily overbroad remedy is now inflicting ongoing, irreparable harm on the Executive Branch that warrants this Court’s urgent intervention,” CNN quoted acting Solicitor General Sarah Harris as writing in court papers.
Harris went on to say that the ruling from US District Judge William Alsup “has compelled the government to embark on the massive administrative undertaking of reinstating, and onboarding to full duty status, thousands of terminated employees in the span of a few days.”
The administration’s request coincides with the federal appeals court in San Francisco reviewing a similar emergency appeal from the administration, which was submitted on March 14.
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