A federal appeals court on Wednesday allowed President Donald Trump to remove Hampton Dellinger as head of the Office of Special Counsel for now, in one of the most prominent legal challenges over presidential power to fire executive branch officials without cause.
The unanimous order from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit paused a ruling over the weekend that would have permanently reinstated Dellinger as his lawsuit moves through the court system.
Wednesday’s unsigned order said Trump “satisfied the stringent requirements” to pause the opinion from Judge Amy Berman Jackson of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
