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Michael Sainato

Court rules Trump’s firing of labor board official illegal, saying president is not a king

woman wearing glasses, red jacket and blue top sits in front of American flag
Gwynne Wilcox. Photograph: National Labor Relations Board

A federal court ruled that Donald Trump’s abrupt firing of a former senior official at the top US labor watchdog was illegal, and ordered that she be reinstated.

Gwynne Wilcox was the first member of the National Labor Relations Board to be removed by a US president since the board’s inception in 1935.

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