The White House fired the head of the Office of Special Counsel on February 7. A district court ordered he be reinstated but the US Court of Appeals rejected the request. It is the first time that the president has resorted to the conservative-dominated court. The White House said the move was an \”unprecedented assault on the separation of powers that warrants immediate relief\” It added that 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. The move is the latest in a string of legal challenges against the Trump administration. It includes an attempt to freeze $3 trillion in federal grants and loans, a deferred resignation program for government workers and a plan to transfer transgender women inmates to men’s prisons. The US president has launched a campaign led by his top donor Elon Musk, to downsize or dismantle swaths of the US government. He has also clashed with judges over his abolition of birthright citizenship, sending Venezuelan migrants to Guantanamo Bay, funding cuts to the National Institutes of Health, and placing workers from the US Agency for International Development (USAID) on leave.
The White House fired the head of the Office of Special Coun….
