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Court ruled in favor of Trump firing Dellinger today
Posted on: March 6, 2025 at 14:46:26 CT
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https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/03/06/trump-special-counsel-watchdog/81734299007/
The government watchdog who has been getting federal workers temporarily reinstated after arguing their terminations were illegal will be fired and removed from office, a federal appeals court has ruled.
The decision was the last in a back-and-forth legal saga that started when President Donald Trump attempted on Feb. 7 to fire Hampton Dellinger, the special counsel, whose job included prosecuting cases in which he argues federal workers are fired illegally.
Dellinger said Thursday he would not seek to take the case to the Supreme Court, according to Reuters. This effectively cements his firing and puts in jeopardy his office's cases protecting workers from Trump's firings.
The Trump administration has said it will replace Dellinger with Doug Collins, the head of the Department of Veterans Affairs, an agency that is a frequent target of complaints over prohibited personnel practices that announced this week it will lay off 76,000 employees. Collins would do both roles.
'Rogue' attempts to reinstate workers
In its decision Wednesday to allow Dellinger to be fired, the appeals court in Washington, D.C., specifically pointed to Dellinger's use of his own reinstatement to his position to prosecute complaints from terminated probationary employees and seek pauses on their terminations from a federal labor board.
The decision said those prosecutions are inherent functions of executive power, which resides with the president, and said it would immediately pause Dellinger's reinstatement "and put an end to Dellinger’s rogue use of executive authority over the president’s objection."
Hours before the decision came down, Dellinger won the temporary reinstatement of nearly 6,000 probationary employees of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, whom he argued were fired using a form letter that cited performance issues but didn't prove any.
He also won temporary reinstatements for employees of the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Department of Energy, the Department of Education, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and the Office of Personnel Management.
The government watchdog who has been getting federal workers temporarily reinstated after arguing their terminations were illegal will be fired and removed from office, a federal appeals court has ruled.
The decision was the last in a back-and-forth legal saga that started when President Donald Trump attempted on Feb. 7 to fire Hampton Dellinger, the special counsel, whose job included prosecuting cases in which he argues federal workers are fired illegally.
Dellinger said Thursday he would not seek to take the case to the Supreme Court, according to Reuters. This effectively cements his firing and puts in jeopardy his office's cases protecting workers from Trump's firings.
The Trump administration has said it will replace Dellinger with Doug Collins, the head of the Department of Veterans Affairs, an agency that is a frequent target of complaints over prohibited personnel practices that announced this week it will lay off 76,000 employees. Collins would do both roles.
'Rogue' attempts to reinstate workers
In its decision Wednesday to allow Dellinger to be fired, the appeals court in Washington, D.C., specifically pointed to Dellinger's use of his own reinstatement to his position to prosecute complaints from terminated probationary employees and seek pauses on their terminations from a federal labor board.
The decision said those prosecutions are inherent functions of executive power, which resides with the president, and said it would immediately pause Dellinger's reinstatement "and put an end to Dellinger’s rogue use of executive authority over the president’s objection."
Hours before the decision came down, Dellinger won the temporary reinstatement of nearly 6,000 probationary employees of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, whom he argued were fired using a form letter that cited performance issues but didn't prove any.
He also won temporary reinstatements for employees of the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Department of Energy, the Department of Education, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and the Office of Personnel Management.
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Court ruled in favor of Trump firing Dellinger today - Spanky KU - 3/6 14:46:26