BREAKING: Trump admin asks Supreme Court to block judge’s order to rehire thousands of fired federal workers

According to Reuters, on Monday, the Department of Justice requested that the Supreme Court block an order from US District Judge William Alsup that demanded six federal agencies rehire the thousands of workers that were let go by the Trump administration.

The DOJ wrote in the filing that the order allowed for a judge to “hijack the employment relationship between the federal government and its workforce.”

"This court should stop the ongoing assault on the constitutional structure before further damage is wrought," the Trump administration added. The DOJ wrote that the order from Alsup violated the separation of powers found in the Constitution, and that the decision was "arrogating to a single district court the executive branch's powers of personnel management on the flimsiest of grounds and the hastiest of timelines."

In his order to have the workers rehired, the judge said the mass firing directed by the Trump administration were part of a "sham" strategy to reduce the federal workforce. The judge claimed that the Trump administration had not gone through the proper legal channels to fire the employees, and wrote, "It is sad, a sad day when our government would fire some good employee and say it was based on performance when they know good and well that’s a lie."

The ruling from Alsup applied to workers who were at the US Department of Defense, Department of Veterans Affairs, Department of Agriculture, Department of Energy, Department of Interior, as well as the Treasury Department.

Trump, along with the help of Elon Musk and the newly created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) have been working to shrink the scope of government and cut back on wasteful spending of taxpayer dollars. However, there has been significant pushback from unions as well as other groups to legally challenge mass firings of staff in the executive agencies.