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Supreme Court won't allow Trump to immediately fire head of whistleblower office
11 hours ago
By declining to back Trump’s emergency appeal, the conservative court nominally sided with Dellinger, who President Joe Biden appointed in 2024 to lead the Office of Special Counsel for a five-year term but who White House officials fired in a brief email days after Trump returned to power.
In an unsigned order, the court said it would hold the case on pause until February 26, when a temporary order handed down by a lower court is set to expire. A district court hearing is scheduled to consider whether to extend the pause on Dellinger’s dismissal.
In Dellinger’s case, a federal district court issued a temporary restraining order blocking Trump from enforcing the dismissal for a few weeks to give the court time to consider the case.
Such temporary orders are, generally, not appealable. But the Justice Department under Trump appealed anyway, arguing that federal courts had committed an “unprecedented assault on the separation of powers” with the order.
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/02/21/polit...index.html
In an unsigned order, the court said it would hold the case on pause until February 26, when a temporary order handed down by a lower court is set to expire. A district court hearing is scheduled to consider whether to extend the pause on Dellinger’s dismissal.
In Dellinger’s case, a federal district court issued a temporary restraining order blocking Trump from enforcing the dismissal for a few weeks to give the court time to consider the case.
Such temporary orders are, generally, not appealable. But the Justice Department under Trump appealed anyway, arguing that federal courts had committed an “unprecedented assault on the separation of powers” with the order.
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/02/21/polit...index.html
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