A judge ruled Trump’s firing of NLRB member Gwynne Wilcox unlawful. The Trump administration appealed, asserting the president’s authority to remove officials.

Hampton Dellinger remains an oddity in this current bleak iteration of the federal government—an uncaptured executive branch official.

A federal appeals court panel said Trump could fire Office of Special Counsel head Hampton Dellinger for now while litigation continued, but Dellinger said Wednesday that he’s ending his legal fight.

The former watchdog for federal workers said Thursday that he intends to drop his bid for the courts to reinstate him after the Trump administration fired him without cause last month, signaling the end to the most prominent fight so far about Trump’s effort to reshape the executive branch.

Hampton Dellinger, a booted-then-reinstated Biden ethics enforcer who is fighting to keep his job in federal court, has started sounding the alarm on firings at the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The post ‘The rules