President Trump has just appealed to the Supreme Court to halt a ruling that would force his administration to rehire thousands of probationary employees.

Here’s the news:

The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Monday to halt a ruling ordering the rehiring of thousands of federal workers let go in mass firings aimed at dramatically downsizing the federal government.

The emergency appeal argues that the judge can’t force the executive branch to rehire some 16,000 probationary employees.

It also calls on the conservative-majority court to rein in the growing number of federal judges who have slowed President Donald Trump’s sweeping agenda, at least for now, by finding that his administration hasn’t followed federal law.

The order came from U.S. District Judge William Alsup in San Francisco, who found the firings didn’t follow federal law and required immediate offers of reinstatement be sent.

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

The temporary restraining order came in a lawsuit filed by a coalition of labor unions and organizations as the Republican administration moves to reduce the federal workforce.

This should be a slam dunk for Trump, but you never know exactly how this court is going to rule. But he’s absolutely right that the court shouldn’t be able to force them to rehire employees like this en masse. It might be different if it was a single employee, but 16,000? C’mon. This is nothing but more judicial activism.