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The Trump administration returned to the Supreme Court on Monday to ask the justices to reverse a lower court order that has blocked mass firings and major reorganizations at federal agencies, a case that could have enormous implications for the president’s power to reshape the federal government.

The latest in a wave of emergency filings, Trump’s appeal lands as the justices prepare for a packed June, with major rulings expected from the court’s merits docket.