Trump should not be able to fire all agency heads
When President Donald Trump announced this month that he would dismiss Hampton Dellinger, head of the Office of Special ...
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Acting General Counsel of NLRB Issues First GC Memorandum, Rescinding Controversial Pro-Labor Memoranda
On February 14, 2025, the Acting General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) William B. Cowen issued his first General ...
Supreme Court Will Turn Its Attention to Presidential Authority Over Agencies
Supreme Court Will Turn Its Attention to Presidential Authority Over Agencies With Donald Trump’s return to the presidency, the U.S. Supreme Court’s attention will shift from its June decision that ...
'Little for this court to decide': Biden-appointed labor board member suggests Trump is gunning for a Supreme Court showdown over 'nakedly illegal' firing
The Trump administration acknowledges the case law may not be on its side. To that end, the government says, it reserves the ...
Trump has a path to killing the Fed’s independence — if he wants it
As the Trump administration dramatically reshapes the federal bureaucracy and tests the limits of executive power, however, ...
Trump Order to Curb Independent Agencies Has an Open Legal Path
Legal scholar John Shu says President Donald Trump’s executive order checking the power of independent agencies likely will ...
Trump has a path to killing the Fed’s independence. How this unofficial norm came to exist
In 2020, the Court ruled in a 5-4 decision that Trump had the power to fire the head of the Consumer Financial Protection ...
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Lots of Action – The First Weeks of the Trump Presidency
It has proven to be an eventful first month of the new administration with multiple executive orders, memoranda issued, and lawsuits filed ...
Judge Rules Against Mass Firing Order: Here’s Where Trump And Musk Are Winning—And Losing—In Court
A federal judge ruled Thursday the Trump administration’s push to fire newer government workers en masse is likely illegal, ...