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An administration lawyer complained about what she said was a trend of lower court judges exceeding their authority in halting government programs.
By Adam Liptak
Reporting from Washington
The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Monday to block a ruling from a federal judge in California ordering it to rehire thousands of fired federal workers who had been on probationary status.
The emergency application is one of several that appear to be headed to the Supreme Court, a reflection of the scores of lower court rulings that halted administration initiatives. President Trump has denounced the lower court resistance and has called for the Supreme Court to intervene.
Sarah M. Harris, the acting solicitor general, wrote that federal judges have issued more than 40 temporary restraining orders or injunctions blocking administration programs. Many of them, she said, involved rulings that applied nationwide.
She said federal judges had issued 14 such injunctions against the federal government in the first three years of the Biden administration. In February alone, she added, judges issued 15 nationwide injunctions against the Trump administration.
The emergency application filed Monday objected to an injunction from a federal judge in California who earlier this month ordered the administration to reinstate more than 16,000 probationary employees who had been fired. Ms. Harris wrote that the ruling was a stark example of this trend.
“The court’s extraordinary reinstatement order violates the separation of powers, arrogating to a single district court the executive branch’s powers of personnel management on the flimsiest of grounds and the hastiest of timelines,” she wrote. “That is no way to run a government. This court should stop the ongoing assault on the constitutional structure before further damage is wrought.”
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