President Donald Trump can remove the head of a federal agency that investigates complaints lodged by federal employees, an appeals court ruled on March 5.
A U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit panel vacated an order from a federal judge that had prevented Trump from firing Hampton Dellinger, the head of the Office of Special Counsel (OSC).
The judges said in a per curiam order that the government “have satisfied the stringent requirements for a stay pending appeal.”
They added, “An opinion will follow in due course.”
U.S. Circuit Judges Karen LeCraft Henderson, Patricia A. Millett, and Justin R. Walker were assigned the appeal….