DC Circuit Court Judge Orders OBM, Treasury to Reinstate Legally Protected Official Who Trump Fired

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

47% : " BACKGROUND: Supreme Court Punts on Trump Firing Legally Protected Official Trump Sends Scorching Appeal of DC Court Order Reinstating Biden Appointee to the Supreme Court On Saturday night, the same D.C. District judge ruled that, as a legally protected official, Hampton Dellinger cannot be removed from the OSC position by the Trump administration: D.C. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson wrote in the Saturday filing that the court's ruling that Dellinger's firing was "unlawful" is consistent with Supreme Court precedent.
37% : Jackson did not enjoin Trump.
37% : As Streiff wrote about another case on Feb. 19 (see Judge Orders Biden Appointee Fired by Trump Reinstated to Office), this is starting to look like something of a pattern, but the case's journey isn't over yet.
17% : " The backstory is that President Trump fired Dellinger from his perch as head of the Office of Special Counsel.
12% : That move came after District of Columbia Circuit Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson ordered the administration to reinstate Dellinger on Feb. 12, a decision that Trump's legal team swiftly appealed: On February 7, President Trump fired Democrat apparatchik Hampton Dellinger along with most of the remaining agency inspectors general.

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