Trump Administration Urges Court to Reject Union Injunction Bid

Two unions representing federal workers fail to show they’ve suffered irreparable harm from President Donald Trump’s order nullifying their collective bargaining agreements and shouldn’t be granted an injunction, the administration told a federal court.

The unions, representing employees at the US Patent and Trademark Office and the National Weather Service, made a “factually flawed and logically inconsistent” argument of retaliation that’s unlikely to succeed on the merits, the administration said in an opposition motion filed Wednesday in the US District Court for the District of Columbia.

They also shouldn’t be litigating their case in federal court in the first place, ...