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.

A federal judge who had ordered the Trump administration to reinstate fired federal probationary employees across the country at more than a dozen agencies has narrowed the scope of his ruling so it n

The federal judge who ordered the Trump administration last month to reinstate thousands of fired federal workers issued a ruling Tuesday narrowing the scope of his order. Why it matters: The new ruling scales back what was a significant rebuke of the Trump administration's efforts to radically reshape the federal government via mass firings and gutting agencies.