(Bloomberg) -- President Donald Trump asked the US Supreme Court to let him fire the head of an independent US agency that protects government whistleblowers, seeking high-court intervention for the first time in his campaign to oust federal officials who don’t embrace his views.

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The filing, submitted Sunday but not yet formally docketed, asks the court to lift a temporary restraining order issued by a federal trial judge in Washington. The order shields Hampton Dellinger from being removed from his position at US Office of Special Counsel for 14 days.

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The weekend rush to the Supreme Court followed a Saturday night order from a divided federal appeals court rejecting the administration’s intervention request as premature.

“This court should not allow lower courts to seize executive power by dictating to the president how long he must continue employing an agency head against his will,” acting Solicitor General Sarah Harris said in the Supreme Court filing, released by the Justice Department.

The 2-1 appeals court decision said it would mark a “sharp departure” from normal court procedures to let the administration appeal the temporary order rather than waiting...

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