President Trump is heading to the Supreme Court in the first such appeal of the concerted lawfare assault on his second-term agenda. The issue is not any of the cases involving billions of dollars or thousands of jobs but rather the firing of Hampton Dellinger, head of the Office of Special Counsel.
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.
In a footnote to her written order, the judge castigated the White House lawyers for claiming in her court that reinstating Dellinger would cause too much disruption in…
