The Trump administration has appealed against a district court judge’s order to reinstate Cathy Harris as chairwoman of the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB).
The appeal was filed with the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on Feb. 20, two days after U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras issued the temporary restraining order on Harris’s termination.
A motion to stay the temporary restraining order while the appeal was pending was also filed.
“This relief constitutes an extraordinary intrusion into the president’s authority,” government attorneys argued in their motion.
Along with temporarily restoring Harris to her position, Contreras’s order prohibits government officials from “treating her as having been removed,” blocking her access to the office’s resources, and recognizing any other person as a member of the MSPB in her position….