Well, well, well. Seems even the DC Circuit Court of Appeal has noticed that the Article III branch doesn’t have authority to tell the Article II branch who to hire or fire.
In a ruling handed down late yesterday, a three-judge panel unanimously vacated an injunction ordered by a circuit-court judge that ordered Donald Trump to rehire Special Counsel Hampton Dellinger. Judge Amy Berman Jackson had enjoined the president from terminating Dellinger, appointed by Joe Biden a year ago, while his lawsuit challenging Trump’s authority to fire him and many other executive-branch officials remained pending. The Supreme Court declined to intervene, noting that a hearing on the merits would come soon enough to avoid any irreparable harm to Trump’s authority — at which point Dellinger began pushing back on Trump’s other efforts to reduce the federal workforce. -- More...