The agencies include the departments of Veterans Affairs, Agriculture, Defense, Energy, the Interior and the Treasury.

A California federal judge on Thursday ordered six U.S. agencies to reinstate thousands of recently-hired employees who were fired as part of President Donald Trump's purge of the federal workforce. The ruling made by U.

In separate rulings, judges in Maryland and California ordered the reinstatement of probationary workers fired last month across many agencies.

The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court Thursday to overturn lower court orders blocking the president's day-one executive order attempting to end birthright citizenship. The big picture: In the three separate cases — for which the administration filed three different petitions to the high court — judges issued nationwide injunctions blocking the order,

The White House argues that nationwide injunctions blocking President Donald Trump's birthright citizenship executive order are overly broad and has asked the Supreme Court for relief.