The former watchdog for federal workers said Thursday that he intends to drop his bid for the courts to reinstate him after the Trump administration fired him without cause last month, signaling the end to the most prominent fight so far about Trump’s effort to reshape the executive branch.
Hampton Dellinger, who was the head of the Office of Special Counsel until a court ruling Wednesday, said in a statement he would drop his case after facing the “long” odds to be reinstated by the Supreme Court.
A unanimous panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Wednesday paused a lower court ruling that reinstated Dellinger, effectively allowing President Donald Trump to fire Dellinger while the case runs its course.
