The administration had asked the court to step in after a judge in California blocked plans for reductions in force and to reorganize a swath of departments and agencies.

It’s the latest Supreme Court action on a Trump administration request for emergency relief from a lower court ruling.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday backed President Donald Trump’s effort to carry out mass firings and reorganizations at federal agencies, putting on hold a lower court order that had temporarily blocked the president from taking those steps without approval from Congress.