DC Appellate Panel Reverses Injunction, Allows Trump to Fire Special Counsel

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...

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