The Trump administration urged the US Supreme Court to allow federal agencies to layoff thousands of employees by halting a lower court order pausing the widespread workforce cuts.
In an emergency application filed Friday, the Justice Department argued that a California federal judge’s ruling is overbroad and irreparably harms the federal government.
“That far-reaching order bars almost the entire Executive Branch from formulating and implementing plans to reduce the size of the federal workforce, and requires disclosure of sensitive and deliberative agency documents that are presumptively protected by executive privilege,” the agency wrote. “It does all of that based on ...
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