U.S. District Judges Rudolph Contreras and Beryl Howell separately upheld federal laws protecting officials serving in these posts from being fired without cause, rejecting Trump's argument that the measures passed by Congress encroach on authority granted to the president under the U.S. Constitution.

A federal judge in California had ordered the Trump administration to rehire government employees fired as part of its efforts to slash the federal work force.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed the Trump administration to keep several thousand probationary federal employees it is attempting to fire off the payroll while lower courts weigh whether the downsizing efforts are legal,

A group of unions on Monday asked a federal judge in San Francisco to bar the Trump administration from eliminating collective bargaining rights for hundreds of thousands of federal employees.

President Donald Trump asked the US Supreme Court to let him fire top officials at two independent agencies, filing an emergency request that could bolster White House control over federal regulators.

Attorney General Pam Bondi relied on an increasingly common assertion: that the judge was “unelected” and denying the will of voters who put the president in office.