
Appeals court blocks Trump from firing federal board members, tees up Supreme Court fight
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A federal appeals court reinstated two Democratic board members fired by President Trump, setting up a likely Supreme Court showdown over limits on executive removal powers.
The majority cited Supreme Court precedent in Humphrey’s Executor and Wiener v. United States as the backing for their decision, noting that the Supreme Court had never overturned or reversed the decades-old precedent regarding removal restrictions for government officials of "multimember adjudicatory boards" – including the NLRB and MSPB. Breanne Deppisch is a national politics reporter for Fox News Digital covering the Trump administration, with a focus on the Justice Department, FBI, and other national news.
They noted that the Supreme Court has not yet overturned these precedents, or instructed lower courts to act otherwise.