Trump administration blasts ‘unprecedented assault’ on its power in first Supreme Court appeal | CNN Politics

Trump administration blasts ‘unprecedented assault’ on its power in first Supreme Court appeal
By John Fritze, CNN, 4 minute read, Updated 3:37 PM EST, Sun February 16, 2025

CNN — President Donald Trump will ask the Supreme Court to allow him to fire the head of a government ethics watchdog agency in the first appeal from his litigious second term to reach the nation’s highest court.

At the center of the appeal is Hampton Dellinger, who leads the Office of Special Counsel and whom Trump fired this month despite protections enacted by Congress that require an administration to show cause before dismissing someone from the post before their five-year term has ended.

A federal district court temporarily blocked Dellinger’s dismissal while it considers his case, and the US Circuit Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit late Saturday declined to overrule that decision.

The Justice Department prepared its appeal to the Supreme Court within hours of that decision.

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