Trump asks Supreme Court to overturn order blocking mass layoffs

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump's medication asked the Supreme Court to assistance a national judge's bid to halt large-scale staffing cuts and the restructuring of agencies, portion of his run to downsize and reshape the national government.

The Justice Department's May 16 petition came aft U.S. District Judge Susan Illston successful San Francisco blocked large-scale national layoffs known arsenic "reductions successful force" for 14 days successful a May 9 ruling siding with a radical of unions, non-profits and section governments that challenged the administration.

"That far-reaching bid bars astir the full enforcement subdivision from formulating and implementing plans to trim the size of the national workforce, and requires disclosure of delicate and deliberative bureau documents that are presumptively protected by enforcement privilege," the section wrote successful its filing.

It added that the judicial bid "does each of that based connected the bonzer presumption that the president lacks authorization to nonstop enforcement agencies however to workout their statutory powers to behaviour large-scale unit actions wrong the enforcement branch," the section added.

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