Washington - President Trump's administration on Monday asked the Supreme Court to allow it to move forward with plans to lay off thousands of federal workers in nearly two dozen institutions while fighting the president's legal battle to significantly cut the size of the government.

The Justice Department’s request for emergency relief is the second time that the Supreme Court has requested an ongoing dispute over its efforts to reduce or lay off employees in the executive branch. The government initially demands the Supreme Court to stop for two weeks Temporary restriction order issued U.S. District Judge Susan Illston, but filed a claim after granting longer relief last month.

That Issuing preliminary ban Illston has blocked the Trump administration's reduction of its plans to allow employees to enjoy executive leave and continue to lay off workforces.

The Supreme Court appeal for the Supreme Court to intervene in the Supreme Court comes after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit last week refused to stop Elston's order, which would allow the administration to resume its efforts to reduce the size of the federal workforce at a dramatic scale.

Lawyer D. John Sauer said in a document that the district court orders were “flawed” and were based on “irrefutable premises” that the president would need to authorize from Congress to oversee personnel decisions within the executive branch.

“It interferes with the internal operation of the executive branch and the unquestionable legal power to plan and execute racing and to be carried out on a government-wide scale,” he wrote. “More specifically, the ban ceased numerous in-process rifles in more than a dozen federal agencies, what measures might be taken by the agency related to RIF, and forced the government to retain the government – ​​at the expense of taxpayers – thousands of employees whose ongoing presence in federal services, which are not in the government and the public.”

Mr. Trump began taking steps to narrow the administration shortly after returning to the White House. president Created Dogea cost-cutting task force led by Elon Musk, whose administration began working to demolish like American International Development Agency and Consumer Financial Protection Bureaudespite the challenges they faced.

Musk's time in the government Ended last Friday His status as a special government employee limits him to 365 days of work for 130 days. But Mr. Trump said the billionaire “really won’t leave, he will go back and forth.”

In February, Mr. Trump issued an executive order directing agencies to develop plans to initiate a “massive” reduction. Following the presidential directive, the Office of Personnel Management and the Office of Budget Management issued a memorandum to guide the agency to submit plans for the two phases of layoffs.

Earlier this year, several department heads began to execute labor layoffs, and thousands of federal employees lost their jobs. Other federal entities are planning Do Significantly reduced In the next few weeks and months.

Reduce strength and Massive termination of trial workerstheir positions are usually one or two years. But those shots that happened in February are also The focus of litigation.

In response to Mr. Trump’s executive order, unions, nonprofits and local governments sued nearly every federal agency to block layoffs, believing that the executive order exceeded the president’s power and violated the separation of power.

A federal district court judge in San Francisco agreed to issue a temporary restraining order, and she expanded relief through a preliminary injunction. Illston's order covers 21 federal agencies and Doge and prevents them from continuing a comprehensive restructuring of the federal government.

The judge also prohibits agencies from executing any orders related to Trump's February executive order. She clarified that the ban would not restrict agencies from proposing their own restructuring plans or engaging in their own planned activities without the participation of OMB, OPM or Doge. Affected institutions include the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Veterans Affairs, and Americorps and the Social Security Bureau.

Ayerston wrote in a 51-page ruling that the president does have the right to seek changes to federal institutions, while nine presidents of the last century tried to reorganize the executive branch, but only after they were approved by Congress.

"The president can set policy priorities for the executive branch, and agent leaders can implement them. This is undisputed," the judge said. "But Congress sets up federal agencies, provides them with funds and gives them the duties they perform. Under the regulations, they must execute them. Agents may not undergo a massive restructuring and reduction because the congressional mandate is blatantly ignored, and the president may not initiate a large-scale restructuring without working with Congress."

The Justice Department asked the 9th Circuit to raise Illston's injunction, which it refused to do in a 2-1 split decision.

"The executive order here goes far beyond the presidential supervision powers under the Constitution," the Court of Appeal wrote. "The president has a significant power to dismiss the appointment of officials of federal agencies."