A coalition of federal employee unions urged the Supreme Court Thursday not to interfere with a federal judge’s sweeping order reinstating more than 16,000 probationary federal employees fired earlier this year under a Trump administration workforce directive.

WASHINGTON—The Justice Department asked the Supreme Court on Monday to block a judge’s order requiring it to reinstate more than 16,000 federal employees, as administration officials vow to seek the justices’ intervention in clearing away lower-court rulings that have slowed Trump policies.

The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Monday to put on hold a federal judge’s ruling reinstating thousands of probationary federal employees who were fired as part of the government’s efforts to quickly downsize its workforce.

Former federal prosecutor Andy McCarthy and Fox News legal editor Kerri Urbahn discuss the hearing at a federal court over the Trump administration’s alleged terrorist gang member deportations on ‘The Story.

A U.S. judge will hold a hearing over whether the Trump administration violated his order temporarily blocking the deportation of alleged Venezuelan gang members under a rarely-invoked 18th century law.

Judge James Boasberg will hear critical arguments against the Trump administration's use of the 18th-century law as legal justification for deporting migrants.

Displeased with the check on Trump’s power, the president and his allies have lashed out at federal judges — and against one judge in particular: James Boasberg, chief judge of the U.S. District Court in Washington,

Justice Department attorneys will appear before Judge James Boasberg on Thursday to make its case for why the Trump administration did not violate his orders halting the use of the Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelans the government has accused of being part of a gang.

Of the 30 judges who have either partially or fully blocked Trump’s executive actions, 26 of them were nominated by Democratic presidents. But those numbers leave out half the story.