The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals lifted a lower court order blocking the Trump administration from firing probationary ...

The ruling overturns a lower court that reinstated thousands of employees who lost their jobs in Trump's purge of the federal workforce.

Issue: Whether the Supreme Court should stay the district court's injunction ordering six departments and agencies to immediately offer reinstatement to over 16,000 employees who were laid off.

The justices acted Tuesday in the Republican administration's emergency appeal of a ruling by a federal judge in California ...