The emergency application seeks a stay to an injunction ordering the reinstatement of “over 16,000 probationary employees” who were fired.

The Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court to halt a ruling ordering the rehiring of thousands of federal workers.

The Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court to allow the firings of thousands of probationary workers as the president seeks to greatly shrink the size of the federal government. Officials filed an emergency appeal Monday asking the high court to block a ruling by a federal judge in San Francisco requiring the administration to rehire about 16,