Supreme Court rules that government watchdog fired by Trump may temporarily remain on the job

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Source: CNN

The Supreme Court on Friday dashed President Donald Trump’s plan to immediately fire the head of an independent agency that investigates whistleblower claims, allowing Hampton Dellinger to remain in the job through at least the middle of next week.

By declining to back Trump’s emergency appeal, the conservative court nominally sided with Dellinger, who President Joe Biden appointed in 2024 to lead the Office of Special Counsel for a five-year term but who White House officials fired in a brief email days after Trump returned to power.

The Dellinger appeal was the first to reach the Supreme Court tied to Trump’s whirlwind of activity since returning to the White House last month. A flood of litigation over executive actions, immigration, other firings and Elon Musk’s work for the government are simultaneously making their way through lower courts.

In an unsigned order, the court said it would hold the case on pause until February 26, when a temporary order handed down by a lower court is set to expire. A district court hearing scheduled then.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/21/politics/supreme-court-trump-dellinger

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SCOTUS rejected an appeal by TFG

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1. Was just about to post

This is reinforcing the idea/thing about having an "individual" plaintiff (with or without a "organization" ) sue vs just the organization (state, Union, non-profit), as the indiviudal can better show "harm".

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2. Bad title (and incorrect comment)

They held the application in abeyance, knowing that the issue could become moot in three business days.

They did not reject it.

In fact - with only two justices saying that they would have rejected the appeal - this could be taken as a message to the lower court to not turn the TRO into a preliminary order.

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3. Mumps dump tens of thousands. Roberts and the 5 Horse's Asses of the Apocalypse temporarily

saves one job. Well, Roberts and one Ass side with the 3 liberals. The other four Asses are still headed (pun intended) the wrong way.