{"id":2405373,"date":"2025-02-21T19:30:01","date_gmt":"2025-02-22T00:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/supreme-court-keeps-pause-on-trump-bid-to-fire-watchdog-head\/"},"modified":"2025-02-21T19:31:49","modified_gmt":"2025-02-22T00:31:49","slug":"supreme-court-keeps-pause-on-trump-bid-to-fire-watchdog-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/supreme-court-keeps-pause-on-trump-bid-to-fire-watchdog-head\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court keeps pause on Trump bid to fire watchdog head &#8211;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsupreme-court-keeps-pause-on-trump-bid-to-fire-watchdog-head%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2405373&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The Supreme Court recently decided not to intervene in a legal dispute concerning\u200b President Donald Trump&#8217;s \u200battempt \u200bto fire Hampton Dellinger, the head of\u200b the U.S. Office of Special Counsel. This decision leaves in place a temporary \u200crestraining order \u200cfrom a lower court that prevents Trump&#8217;s action. The \u200ccourt is\u200b <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">allowing lower court proceedings<\/a> to continue before making a\u2064 ruling, as a district court hearing\u200c is scheduled for Wednesday. The justices did not\u2063 determine whether to grant or deny the emergency request from the trump administration, indicating a reluctance to intervene in executive authority disputes \u2063at \u200dthis stage. The outcome signifies a legal setback\u200d for Trump amidst his efforts to reshape the federal government, especially regarding the authority over independent agencies. Dissenting opinions from Justices Gorsuch and Thomas questioned\u2063 the lower\u200c court&#8217;s decision, suggesting a willingness to reevaluate customary equitable relief measures.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Supreme Court keeps pause on Trump bid to fire watchdog head<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tpd-featured-video\">\n<div id=\"Brid_24824\" class=\"brid\" style=\"width:1280;height:720;\"> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/supreme-court\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Supreme Court<\/a> on Friday declined to intervene immediately in a legal battle over President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Donald Trump<\/a>&rsquo;s attempt to remove <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3321579\/trump-halted-appeals-court-firing-special-counsel-office-chief\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Hampton Dellinger<\/a>, the head of the U.S. Office of Special Counsel, leaving a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/justice-alito-moves-up-deadline-for-supreme-court-briefing-in-pennsylvania-lawsuit-to-flip-the-election\/\" title=\"Justice Alito Moves Up Deadline For ... Briefing in Pennsylvania Lawsuit to Flip the Election\">lower court&#038;rsquo<\/a>;s temporary restraining order in place.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>The justices neither granted nor denied an emergency request filed by the Trump administration after lower courts had blocked the effort to remove Dellinger, an appointee of former President Joe Biden. Instead, the justices said they would not immediately act due to lower court proceedings moving expediently. A district court hearing is slated for Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>However, the court could still act on the matter as litigation progresses.<\/p>\n<p>Liberal Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson said they would have denied the application outright.<\/p>\n<p>Justices Neil Gorsuch and Clarence Thomas dissented from the majority holding. Writing the dissent, Gorsuch said, &ldquo;I would vacate the district court&rsquo;s order and remand with instructions to consider the boundaries of traditional equitable relief.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/scotus-overturns-chevron-doctrine-upends-administrative-state\/\" title=\"SCOTUS Overturns Chevron Doctrine, Upends Administrative State\">high court&#038;rsquo<\/a>;s decision follows a 2-1 vote on Feb. 16, when a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/media.cadc.uscourts.gov\/orders\/docs\/2025\/02\/25-5028LDSD.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">decided<\/a>&nbsp;to keep in place a temporary restraining order by a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/government-unions-have-been-stealing-money-for-years-now-scotus-has-the-chance-to-intervene\/\" title=\"Government Unions Have Been Stealing Money For Years \u2014 Now, SCOTUS Has The Chance To ...\">lower court judge<\/a> that prevents Trump from removing Dellinger.<\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court&rsquo;s move deals a temporary setback to Trump&rsquo;s push for early high court intervention and signals that the justices are unwilling, at least for now, to carve out an exception for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/texas-supreme-court-rules-democrats-absent-from-state-capitol-can-be-arrested\/\" title=\"Texas ... Rules Democrats Absent From State Capitol Can Be Arrested\">temporary restraining orders<\/a> in cases involving executive authority.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3321579\/trump-halted-appeals-court-firing-special-counsel-office-chief\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"TRUMP HALTED FROM FIRING SPECIAL COUNSEL OFFICE CHIEF\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">TRUMP HALTED FROM FIRING SPECIAL COUNSEL OFFICE CHIEF<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>While the ruling does not resolve the larger constitutional questions surrounding presidential control over independent agencies, it suggests the justices are willing to let lower court proceedings develop before moving to act on Trump&rsquo;s bid to fire Dellinger. A Trump win in the Dellinger case would pave the way for easily removing other independent agency heads.<\/p>\n<p>The outcome leaves in place a legal roadblock for Trump as he seeks to reshape the federal government and test the limits of executive power.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_24824\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"playlist\":\"24824\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supreme Court halts Trump\u2019s attempt to remove watchdog head<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2633,"featured_media":2405374,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/AP24327556423072.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[37840,33211,32275,3634,6056],"class_list":["post-2405373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-government-oversight","tag-legal-news","tag-supreme-court","tag-trump","tag-watchdog"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/AP24327556423072.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2405373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2633"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2405373"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2405373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2405377,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2405373\/revisions\/2405377"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2405374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2405373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2405373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2405373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}