Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts issued a stay in the ruling that would have forced President Donald Trump to reinstate top employees of the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) and the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB).
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit blocked Trump from firing NLRB member Cathy Harris and MSPB member Gwynne Wilcox.
The case will test whether the 1935 ruling in Humphrey’s Executor v. United States, in which SCOTUS “unanimously upheld removal restrictions for government officials on multimember adjudicatory boards,” will stand.
SCOTUS reaffirmed the ruling in 1958 in Wiener v. United States.
Trump cited Seila Law v. CFPB, claiming “NLRB does not qualify for the exception because it is not balanced on partisan lines and because it exercises executive powers, such as issuing regulations and pursuing enforcement actions in federal court.”
If SCOTUS sides with Trump…that means he could probably fired Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell. Not getting my hopes up.
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