President Donald Trump has been forced to take his fight to the U.S. Supreme Court after an Obama-appointed judge reinstated Hampton Dellinger, a Biden-era bureaucrat, as head of the Office of Special Counsel.
This latest legal battle comes after a series of judicial oversteps by the activist judiciary.
Last Friday, President Trump exercised his constitutional duty to dismiss Dellinger from his position at the Office of Special Counsel, an agency tasked with safeguarding federal whistleblowers.
Rather than accept his removal, Dellinger filed a lawsuit to reclaim his job. The case was conveniently assigned to none other than Obama-appointed Judge Amy Berman Jackson.
Unsurprisingly, Jackson granted an administrative stay that blocked Trump’s decision and allowed Dellinger to continue running the agency.
This rogue judge went even further, dictating that Trump “must allow Dellinger to continue to have access” to the agency’s resources and forbidding the administration from recognizing any replacement Trump had in mind.
The Trump Justice Department’s appeal of Judge Jackson’s decision was dismissed by a three-judge panel stacked with leftist appointees—Florence Pan (Biden), Michelle Childs (Obama), and Greg Katsas (Trump).
In yet another legal absurdity, the court ruled that Trump could not appeal an administrative stay, leaving the decision in the hands of Jackson, the very judge who unlawfully reinstated Dellinger in the first place.
With Jackson’s ruling set to expire Thursday, she quickly moved to extend it, arguing that Trump cannot unilaterally fire the Special Counsel of the Office of Special Counsel—a blatant affront to the president’s constitutional authority.
Not willing to bow to judicial tyranny, President Trump has now taken the battle to the U.S. Supreme Court, filing an emergency appeal to overturn Jackson’s decision and finally remove Dellinger.
This is the first Supreme Court battle of Trump’s second term, and it signals an unprecedented fight between the executive branch and an activist judiciary hellbent on stopping Trump’s reforms.
The Justice Department’s filing, obtained by the Associated Press, makes a compelling argument that Judge Jackson’s ruling violates the president’s constitutional authority.
The news outlet reported, “The Justice Department’s filing obtained by The Associated Press asks the conservative-majority court to lift a judge’s court order temporarily reinstating Hampton Dellinger as the leader of the Office of Special Counsel.”
Trump’s legal team is citing previous Supreme Court decisions that affirm broad presidential powers over executive appointments.
With a conservative-majority Supreme Court, including three justices appointed by Trump himself, the administration is hopeful that the justices will correct this outrageous judicial overstep and reinstate Trump’s rightful authority to govern.
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