The first major battle of Trump’s second term has now come before the Supreme Court. President Donald Trump, in an emergency application, requested the justices on the bench to give him permission to boot the leader of an agency that is supposed to protect whistleblowers.
The president fired Hampton Dellinger from his position as head of the agency, but a lower court quickly reinstated him. Dellinger was appointed to his post at the Office of Special Counsel by former President Joe Biden. He filed a lawsuit against Trump on Feb. 7, after he was fired by the president.
Acting Solicitor General Sarah Harris stated in the petition that the move against Dellinger “involves an unprecedented assault on the separation of powers that warrants immediate relief.”
“Until now, as far as we are aware, no court in American history has wielded an injunction to force the President to retain an agency head whom the President believes should not be entrusted with executive power and to prevent the President from relying on his preferred replacement,” the petition continues. “Yet the district court remarkably found no irreparable harm to the President if he is judicially barred from exercising exclusive and preclusive powers of the Presidency for at least 16 days, and perhaps for a month.”
“The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals denied Trump’s effort to block the lower court’s temporary hold in a 2-1 decision Saturday, noting such orders are not typically subject to appeals,” the Daily Caller reported.
The petition also requests the justices to “end the practice whereby courts seize Article II powers for two weeks, yet disclaim the availability of any appellate review in the meantime.”
“Trump’s early actions have been blocked by temporary restraining orders, including the funding freeze and a restriction on hospitals that offer child sex-changes receiving federal funds. White House officials have called out the orders as judicial overreach, slamming them for blocking legitimate uses of executive power,” the report stated.
“The First Congress rejected the idea that the President would need to obtain the Senate’s advice and consent to remove a principal executive officer,” Harris went on to state in the petition. “No one imagined that the President might need to obtain the advice and consent of a federal district court.”
Leftist deep state operators within the federal government are in full panic mode over Trump. In the last month he has blitzed them with a ton of executive orders that undo much of the work progressives have done over the last two decades, particularly under the Biden administration.
Now he’s trying to dismantle the infrastructure of the liberal shadow government within the federal apparatus and they are trying their best to stop him. Let’s pray for his success.