A federal appeals court appeared to split while considering whether to sideline two independent agency officials as the Trump administration continues to fight for the legal right to fire them.
The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit showed its lack of unanimity during oral argument Tuesday over the Trump administration’s request to halt federal judges’ orders that reinstated Gwynne Wilcox to the National Labor Relations Board and Cathy Harris to the Merit Systems Protection Board.
Judge Patricia Millett, an Obama appointee, appeared to lean against staying the lower courts’ decisions, while Judge Justin Walker, a Trump ...