
By Andrew Chung
March 24 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's administration brought its bid to purge the federal workforce to the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday, challenging a judicial directive to rehire thousands of fired government employees.
The Justice Department asked the Supreme Court to block a March 13 order by San Francisco-based U.S. District Judge William Alsup for six federal agencies to reinstate thousands of probationary - meaning recently hired - employees dismissed as part of Trump's campaign to downsize and reshape the government.