The Trump administration asked a federal appeals court on Tuesday to toss rulings that found its mass firings of recently hired and promoted federal employees unlawful, arguing that the judicial orders are hurting its management of the civil service.

The Supreme Court in April already overturned a California district judge’s injunction that prevented the firings of employees in their probationary periods, but that order has not yet been formally revoked. After the high court’s ruling, the district judge ordered federal agencies, including the Departments of Defense and Energy, to send letters to dismissed workers attesting that they were let go as part of an effort to shrink government and not because of their individual performances. Much of the argument at an appeals court on Tues

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