The high court lifts two lower court orders preventing the president from firing members of independent labor boards.
The Supreme Court on May 22 formally blocked lower court rulings that prevented President Donald Trump from firing members of independent labor boards.
Justices Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor, and Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented.
Acting on behalf of the high court, Chief Justice John Roberts on April 9 temporarily halted the orders by two Washington-based federal judges that blocked the president’s firings of Cathy Harris from the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) and Gwynne Wilcox from the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) before their terms expire.
The April 9 order issued by Roberts, called an administrative stay, gave the justices more time to consider the Trump administration’s emergency application seeking a block. The stay was granted hours after the administration requested it. Roberts did not explain his ruling.
The new order states that the orders issued by the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit are “stayed pending the disposition of the appeal” in that court.
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