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First Test of Trump’s Power to Fire Officials Reaches Supreme Court
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/16/us/trump-supreme-court-special-counsel.html
The court’s conservative majority may be receptive to the argument that presidents have unlimited power to remove leaders of independent agencies. In the first case to reach the Supreme Court arising from the blitz of actions taken in the early weeks of the new administration, lawyers for President Trump asked the justices on Sunday to let him fire a government lawyer who leads a watchdog agency. The administration’s emergency application asked the court to vacate a federal trial judge’s order temporarily reinstating Hampton Dellinger, the head of the Office of Special Counsel. Mr. Dellinger leads an independent agency charged with safeguarding government whistle-blowers and enforcing certain ethics laws. The position is unrelated to special counsels appointed by the Justice Department. “This court should not allow lower courts to seize executive power by dictating to the president how long he must continue employing an agency head against his will,” the administration’s filing said.
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