The president cited the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978 and national security concerns for the order, but was quickly met with lawsuits to block the order.

The Trump administration has turned to the Supreme Court in hopes of being allowed to resume its mass firing of federal employees, which was put on nationwide pause by a federal judge in California.

The injunction had frozen the president’s order seeking to remove collective bargaining rights from workers at dozens of ...

The Trump administration came to the Supreme Court on Friday afternoon, asking the justices to temporarily block an order by ...