Roger Severino sued then-President Joe Biden in 2021 for dismissing him before the end of his term on an independent agency called the Administrative Conference of the United States.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit’s decision against Severino laid the groundwork for the court’s decision on Friday that President Donald Trump can fire holdover Biden appointees at “independent agencies.”
The appeals court paused a U.S. District Court’s orders restoring fired members of the National Labor Relations Board and Merit Systems Protection Board to their jobs.
