As we wrote just over a week ago, the United States Supreme Court decided to take a pass on ruling on President Donald Trump’s firing of Hampton Dellinger, who until recently ran the Office of Special Counsel.
That move came after District of Columbia Circuit Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson ordered the administration to reinstate Dellinger on Feb. 12, a decision that Trump’s legal team swiftly appealed:
On February 7, President Trump fired Democrat apparatchik Hampton Dellinger along with most of the remaining agency inspectors general. Dellinger sued for reinstatement. By statute, he is appointed for a five-year term and can only be removed by the president for “inefficiency, neglect of duty, or malfeasance in office.” The case went to Judge Amy Berman Jackson, who ordered Dellinger reinstated.
As my colleague Streiff wrote about the SCOTUS punt:
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