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Washington, DC: According to Politico, the Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Friday to allow it to go forward with its plan to fire tens of thousands of employees across federal agencies right now.

The government asked the courts in an emergency appeal to swiftly overturn a lower court ruling that was temporarily stopping the layoffs. The most recent move in the Trump administration’s effort to cut the federal workforce is its plea for Supreme Court involvement. The administration has previously received assistance from the high court in carrying out its job.

A lower-court ruling that had stopped the mass terminations of probationary employees at six Cabinet departments was revoked by the judges earlier in April.

The current request from the Trump administration relates to a larger group of federal workers that a number of agencies want to fire in accordance with an executive order that was issued in February that called for “large-scale reductions in force.”

According to Politico, Clinton appointee US District Judge Susan Illston prevented the government from implementing the layoffs last week.

Illston unjustly infringed on the president’s “unquestioned legal authority to plan and carry out” layoffs and reorganize the federal workforce, according to Solicitor General John Sauer’s Supreme Court appeal.

According to Sauer, “The order has brought to a halt numerous in-progress RIFs at more than a dozen federal agencies, compelling the government to retain, at taxpayer expense, thousands of employees whose continuance in federal service is determined by agencies not to be in the government and public interest.”

Illston’s decision, according to Sauer, has prevented around 40 continuing reductions-in-force at 17 agencies. Trump’s decision has been contested by the nation’s biggest federal workers’ unions, a number of charitable organizations, and local governments. In favor of the workers, more than 20 states with a Democratic leaning have submitted papers.

According to Illston, the administration is not adhering to stringent legal and procedural standards, such as the length of time a person has worked for an agency, that are applicable when the government wishes to implement mass layoffs.

She said that a president must have “the cooperation of the legislative branch” in order to implement the expansive reorganizations that Trump has declared. According to Politico, she remembered that during his first term, Trump pushed Congress to enact legislation supporting similar initiatives.

Illston’s directive applied to 21 agencies, including the National Labor Relations Board, National Science Foundation, Small Business Administration, Social Security Administration, Energy, Commerce, Health and Human Services, Interior, Labor, State, Treasury, Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, Office of Personnel Management (OPM), Veterans Affairs, Agriculture, Office of Management and Budget (OMB), and Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).