By Andrew Chung
(Reuters) -Donald Trump’s president’s administration brought his candidacy to purify the federal workforce at the US Supreme Court on Monday, challenging a judicial directive on the re -deployment of thousands of government officials and claims that the judge exceeded its powers.
The Ministry of Justice in the filing has asked the Supreme Court to block the order on March 13 from San Francisco -based US judge William Alsup for six federal agencies to recover thousands of testing – which has recently been hired – employees rejected as part of the Trump campaign to reduce and re -adjust the government.
The judge damaged the administration for incorrect termination of test workers and questioned the excuse by the government that the dismissals were the result of poor employee performance.
In his submission, the Ministry of Justice stated that the Alsup order allows the plaintiffs in the case to “abduct labor relations between the federal government and his workforce”, violating the division of power between the judiciary and the executive branches of the government.
These two branches, as well as the legislative branch – Congress – were created as odds in the US Constitution to ensure checks and balancing the power they possess.
“This court must stop the ongoing attack on the constitutional structure before the damage is caused,” the department added.
Drilling workers usually have less than a year of service in their current roles, although some are long -time federal employees who serve as new roles. They have less protection in the workplace than other state workers, but generally can only be fired for poor work.
The judge’s actions were a significant blow to Trump’s high efforts and billionaire advisor Elon Musk for a drastic contraction of the federal bureaucracy.
Unions, non -profit groups and Washington state claim that the US staff management service has exceeded its power to mass shootings. Alsup, appointed to former Democrat president Bill Clinton, agreed.
“This is a sad day when our government will fire a good employee and say that it is based on the presentation when they know good and well that this is a lie,” Alsup said at a hearing.
The ALSUP’s decision applied for test staff at the US Department of Defense, the Department of Veterans, the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Energy, the Ministry of Interior and the Ministry of Finance.
In a separate case, a federal judge based in Baltimore ordered the administration to reimburse the test workers in 18 federal agencies, including the Environmental Protection Agency, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the US Agency for International Development, in a lawsuit filed by 20 countries led by Democrats.
Trump, US Prosecutor General Pam Bondi and other members of his administration, have accused a number of federal judges who have issued orders preventing the Republican president’s actions for judicial excess at the expense of the presidential authority. Last week, Trump called for an impeachment from the judge’s congress, chairing a legal challenge for deportation flights, attracting a rebuke from US Chief Judge John Roberts.
Trump last week in a social media publication called for the termination of national orders.
“If justice Roberts and the United States Supreme Court do not immediately correct this toxic and unprecedented situation, our country is in very serious problems!” Trump wrote in this post.
The Ministry of Justice told the Supreme Court in the filed Monday that the lower courts had issued 40 court orders preventing his policies “without sufficient attention to the restrictions on their own jurisdiction or defects in the plaintiffs’ representations regarding law and basic facts.”
“This situation is unstable,” the submission said.
The Trump administration on March 13 asked the Supreme Court to restrict the court block imposed by the lower courts in its attempt to limit automatic citizenship in the United States.
“Universal orders have reached epidemic sizes since the beginning of this administration,” the Ministry of Justice said in the submission of March 13. “This court must declare that it is sufficient enough before the growing dependence of the district courts on the universal orders is further strengthened.”
Trump, along with Musk, moved to remove thousands of federal jobs, dismantle certain agencies, and eliminate executives of independent agencies, despite authorized protection in the workplace in Congress, as he seeks to revise the federal government in a second term as a president, which began in January.
(Report from Andrew Chung in New York; Editing by Will Dunham)