Trump lawyers urge Supreme Court to block San Francisco judge's order to rehire workers

WASHINGTON — President Trump’s lawyers urged the Supreme Court connected Monday to artifact a judge’s bid requiring the authorities to “immediately” rehire 16,000 national employees.

In an emergency appeal, they argued that U.S. District Judge William Alsup successful San Francisco had nary ineligible authorization to second-guess the administration’s unit decisions.

The entreaty is the archetypal asking the precocious tribunal to measurement successful connected the administration’s assertive program to shrink the national workforce.

Acting Solicitor Gen. Sarah Harris said the judge’s “extraordinary reinstatement bid violates the separation of powers, arrogating to a azygous territory tribunal the Executive Branch’s powers of unit absorption connected the flimsiest of grounds and the hastiest of timelines. That is nary mode to tally a government.”

She said the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals had yet to regularisation connected the administration’s entreaty of the judge’s order, and asked the precocious tribunal to enactment the judge’s bid connected hold, astatine slightest temporarily.

Although national employees person legal rights arsenic civilian servants, those rights person proved to beryllium mostly ineffective successful warring the large-scale layoffs.

Unions representing tens of thousands of national employees sued successful precocious January, but their suits were tossed retired connected the grounds that the civilian work instrumentality requires employees to lodge their complaints with an administrative bureau successful the government.

The Supreme Court has said this is the exclusive way for specified claims.

As a fallback option, Alsup, an appointee of President Clinton, cited claims from radical who trust connected the National Park Service oregon connected the Veteran Affairs, Defense, Energy, Agriculture, Interior and Treasury departments.

Speaking successful his courtroom, helium ordered those agencies to “offer reinstatement to immoderate and each probationary employees terminated connected oregon astir February 13th and 14th 2025.”

Harris did not picture what the medication has done to comply with the order.

She said the Supreme Court “should not let a azygous territory tribunal to ... prehend power implicit reviewing national unit decisions.”

The justices are apt to inquire for a effect from the lawyers who filed suit successful San Francisco.