The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Friday to lift a judge’s order blocking mass layoffs at 21 federal agencies.

It marks the latest bid by the Justice Department to rein in district judges who’ve issued nationwide injunctions blocking President Trump’s policies. The department said the lower ruling “far exceeds anything necessary to remediate the parties’ putative injuries.”

U.S. District Judge Susan Illston, an appointee of former President Clinton who serves in San Francisco, earlier this........

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