The Justice Department submitted multiple filings with the Supreme Court that accused federal judges of abusing their constitutional powers, while lower courts criticized the Trump administration’s expansive view of presidential power.

The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to pause a lower court decision requiring six agencies to reinstate more than 16,000 federal probationary workers.

The Trump administration on Monday made an emergency appeal to the Supreme Court to block a lower court order demanding that the government rehire thousands of probationary employees who were fired as part of the president’s federal bureaucracy house cleaning.