A coalition of federal employee unions urged the Supreme Court Thursday not to interfere with a federal judge’s sweeping order reinstating more than 16,000 probationary federal employees fired earlier this year under a Trump administration workforce directive.
In a 40-page filing Thursday, the groups led by the American Federation of Government Employees said President Donald Trump’s administration has exaggerated the burden of reemploying workers who were, until recently, fully credentialed and trained.
“It strains credulity that returning employees to work would cause irreparable harm,” they wrote, “when these employees had the same workplaces, credentials, benefits, and training just a few weeks ago.”
The case stems from a February move by department heads in the Trump administration to lay off tens of thousands of probationary employees across
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