SCOTUS: Trump Can’t Fire Govt Watchdog (For Now)

The New York Times reports:

The Supreme Court ruled on Friday that President Trump cannot, for now, remove a government lawyer who leads a watchdog agency while the lawyer’s challenge to his firing moves forward. But the court’s brief, unsigned order indicated that it may soon return to the issue, noting that a trial judge’s temporary restraining order is set to expire next week.

Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson noted that they would have rejected the Trump administration’s request for Supreme Court intervention outright. Justice Neil M. Gorsuch, joined by Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr., filed a dissent.

The majority, Justice Gorsuch wrote, presumably acted as it did because temporary restraining orders like the one in place in the case generally cannot be appealed — that is, he said, it “may not yet have ripened into an appealable order.”

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

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— Lise Latulippe (@liselatulippe.bsky.social) February 21, 2025 at 6:54 PM