The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit refused on Feb. 12 to hear the Trump administration’s appeal of a court stay, allowing the head of the Office of Special Counsel (OSC), Hampton Dellinger, to remain in his position until Thursday at midnight. The order was intended to give a judge time to weigh whether President Donald Trump unlawfully fired Dellinger.
The court argued that the Trump administration failed to prove the stay granted an injunction, which would have made it appealable.
The OSC is the federal agency tasked with investigating and prosecuting government and political corruption….