This article was updated on March 27 at 11:16 a.m. The Trump administration came to the Supreme Court on Monday morning, asking the justices to pause an order by a federal judge in San Francisco that would require the federal government to immediately reinstate more than 16,

The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Monday to put on hold a federal judge’s ruling reinstating thousands of probationary federal employees who were fired as part of the government’s efforts to quickly downsize its workforce.

Trump urged the Supreme Court to halt a sweeping lower court order requiring six federal agencies to reinstate over 16,000 terminated probationary employees.