The Justice Department on Monday asked the Supreme Court to block a federal judge’s ruling ordering the agency to rehire 16,000 probationary workers fired as part of the Trump administration’s efforts to slash the size of government.
Acting Solicitor General Sarah Harris filed an application requesting that SCOTUS place an immediate administrative stay on U.S. District Judge William Alsup’s order to reinstate certain probationary government workers. Harris argued that Aslup’s order was overly broad and an abuse of judicial authority.
“This is no way to run a government,” Harris wrote in the brief. “This Court should stop the ongoing assault on the constitutional structure before further damage is wrought.”
Earlier this month, Alsup said that probationary employees let go by the Trump administration at the departments of Veterans Affairs, Agriculture, Defense, Energy, Interior, and Treasury should be rehired after suits from a number of government unions, like the…