( June 11, 2025, 2:35 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — Unions representing federal workers as well as various groups, counties and cities impacted by recent widespread layoffs of federal workers filed a response in the U.S. Supreme Court arguing that a stay application filed by the federal government after a preliminary injunction in a case challenging that layoffs should be denied as the “request contravenes the fundamental purpose of preliminary relief,” but the government in its reply filed one day later, on June 10, insists that a stay is necessary....