The Trump administration is once again asking the U.S. Supreme Court to lift an injunction issued by a federal court in California and allow the president to move forward with plans to dismantle much of the federal workforce through agency reorganization and mass terminations.

Monday’s emergency filing is the second time the Department of Justice has petitioned the high court in the case. The administration first asked the justices to intervene on May 16, after U.S. District Judge Susan Illston granted the plaintiffs’ request for a temporary a restraining order halting the firings. That filing was withdrawn when the injunction expired after two weeks.

Illston subsequently issued a preliminary injunction which a three-judge panel on the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeal

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