U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson, an appointee of former President Barack Obama, ruled that Dellinger, who leads the agency responsible for protecting government whistleblowers, can remain in his post at least through Saturday while she finalizes a decision.
The case is seen by legal analysts as an early test of Trump’s authority to remove officials from independent agencies and is expected to reach the Supreme Court. The justices on Friday declined the government’s emergency request to lift the block on Dellinger’s firing, putting the matter on hold until Jackson’s previous temporary restraining order expired Wednesday.
“It is incumbent upon this Court to resolve this matter even more expeditiously than the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure would ordinarily permit; and the Court will do so,” Jackson wrote in a 5-page order.
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