The Trump DOJ asked the Supreme Court to intervene after a radical leftist judge out of San Francisco ordered the administration to reinstate 16,000 probationary employees.
Earlier this month, a federal judge said the Trump Administration’s Office of Personnel Management (OPM) illegally fired thousands of probationary employees.
US District Judge William Alsup, a Clinton appointee, ordered the Trump Administration to rehire thousands of fired probationary employees in six federal agencies.
The judge blasted the Trump Administration and said he felt “misled by the US Government” as he ordered six federal agencies to offer reinstatement to fired probationary workers.
“It is 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,” Judge Alsup said. “That should not have been done in our country. It was a sham in order to avoid statutory requirements.”
The six government agencies include: VA, DOD, Energy, Interior, Treasury and Agriculture.
DOJ official Chad Mizelle said in a brief:
“The court’s preliminary injunction thus let third parties hijack the employment relationship between the federal government and its workforce. And, like many other recent orders, the court’s extraordinary reinstatement order violates the separation of powers, arrogating to a single district court the Executive Branch’s powers of personnel management on the flimsiest of grounds and the hastiest of timelines. That is no way to run a government. This Court should stop the ongoing assault on the constitutional structure before further damage is wrought.”
DOJ just took to the Supreme Court a single district judge’s order forcing the reinstatement of 16,000 probationary employees.
From our brief: “This is no way to run a government. This Court should stop the ongoing assault on the constitutional structure before further damage is…
— Chad Mizelle (@ChadMizelle47) March 24, 2025
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