The Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court to intervene and block a lower court order that reinstated thousands of fired probationary employees in the federal government.
Acting Solicitor General Sarah Harris filed an emergency request on March 24, asking the Supreme Court to enter an administrative stay.
“That would leave matters as they currently lie, with the probationary employees the district court required to be reinstated remaining reinstated in at least a paid administrative leave status,” she said.
“But it would relieve agencies of the obligation of continuing efforts to onboard employees to full duty status; and it would relieve applicants of any obligation to provide work assignments to the onboarded employees or to file additional reports documenting those measures in district court.”…