The Donald Trump administration asks the Supreme Court to approve the firing of a head of a federal agency dedicated to protecting whistleblowers in the first appeal of Trump’s new term and a critical test of the fight against the judicial division I did.
Hampton Dillinger, head of the Special Advisors Office (OSC), is one of the fired government watchdogs who sued the Trump administration, claiming that their firing is illegal and should be restored.
OSC is an independent federal agency that acts as “a safe channel for federal employees to blow whi by disclosing fraud.”
It also enforced the Hatch Act, a 1939 law designed to ensure government programs were implemented in a nonpartisan way, and was forced to do so. The aim is to enforce the merit system by investigating and prosecuting political activities.
Dellinger says his office work is “more needed than ever,” and often by the Trump administration, focusing on “unprecedented” numbers of shots with no particular cause. of federal government employees who are under civil service protection.
On Wednesday, federal judge Amy Berman Jackson returned to his position awaiting a court hearing on February 26th, and the language of the 1978 law that created Dillinger’s position was “special advisor.” “It’s choked in the winds of political change that writes that it expresses the clear intention of Congress to ensure independence and segregated his work.”
According to the law, special advisors may be “only removed by the President for inefficiency, neglect of duty or misconduct in their duties.”
To ensure the Trump administration wipes out shootings across the federal government, Dellinger claimed that his firing was illegal via a one-sentence email that did not identify the cause.
Now, the Trump Justice Department petitions the Supreme Court to cancel Jackson’s order, allowing the judge to revive the agency’s director for two weeks, and the February 26 hearing on the case will be on the presidential forces. It claims to be an unacceptable check.
“To date, as far as we know, the courts in American history have not exercised an injunction that force the president to maintain the head of the agency,” Trump’s representative attorney general said Sarah M. Harris. , written in a brief obtained by the Associated Press. on sunday.
The case is not expected to be sorted out until the Supreme Court returns on President’s Day holiday weekend. That means the judiciary won’t respond early until Tuesday.
The Trump administration argues that by having the orders be ordered at Dillinger’s case stand, it could “entangle judges” to issue additional blocks in the roughly 70 cases the Trump administration has faced so far It’s doing it.
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It focuses on some of the dozens and more cases in which judges delayed Trump’s agenda. This includes ordering a temporary lifting of the freeze on foreign aid funds and blocking workers along with Elon Musk’s so-called “government efficiency” team.
The Supreme Court’s ruling in favor of the Trump administration in Dillinger case overturns decades of precedent, legal experts said. Conservative Trump supporters are pushing for the Supreme Court to overturn the 1935 Supreme Court decision and protect the powers of independent agencies to protect them from being fired by the president.
“Since we arrived at OSC last year, we couldn’t be more proud of everything we have achieved,” Dellinger said in a statement to Politico last week. “The agency’s work has earned praise from supporters such as whistleblowers, veterans and others. There is no fact or legal basis for the efforts to exclude me – none – that is, it is illegal. It means.”
The special advisor’s office is separate from the Department of Justice special advice appointed by the Attorney General for specific investigations such as Jack Smith.
The Associated Press contributed to reporting
