Appeals Court Sympathetic to Trump’s Attempt to Remove Agency Heads

Two of the judges seemed critical of attempts to temporarily maintain lower court decisions keeping the two agency heads in their positions.

The E. Barrett Prettyman U.S. Court House in Washington where a three-judge panel heard oral argument on March 18 over the Trump administration's attempt to fire two agency heads. Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times

A three-judge panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit seemed inclined on March 18 to allow President Donald Trump’s removals of two agency heads who alleged that their removals violated federal law.

Judges Justin Walker and Karen Henderson asked questions indicating they were skeptical of arguments from Cathy Harris, chair of the Merit Systems Protection Board. Two separate district courts blocked the administration’s firing of her as well as its firing of National Labor Relations Board member Gwynne Wilcox.