REPORT: Trump administration asks Supreme Court to intervene in rehiring of federal workers

March 24, 2025

From The Hill: The Trump administration Monday asked the Supreme Court to block an order forcing the government to rehire thousands of workers fired as part of President Trump’s effort to drastically reduce the size of the federal workforce.

U.S. District Judge William Alsup ordered the administration indefinitely reinstate more than 16,000 probationary employees terminated at a half-dozen agencies upon ruling that their firings were likely unlawful.

The Trump administration’s emergency application comes after an appeals court declined to immediately block Alsup’s order.

“Those orders have sown chaos as the Executive Branch scrambles to meet immediate compliance deadlines by sending huge sums of government money out the door, reinstating thousands of lawfully terminated workers, undoing steps to restructure Executive Branch agencies, and more,” acting Solicitor General Sarah Harris wrote in the application.

“The lower courts should not be allowed to transform themselves into all-purpose over-seers of Executive Branch hiring, firing, contracting, and policymaking. Only this Court can end the interbranch power grab,” she continued.