Judge: Trump Admin Must Reinstate Merit Systems Board Chair as Appeal Gets Underway

Government attorneys also motioned for a stay on the temporary restraining order until after their appeal.

The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on March 22, 2023. Richard Moore/The Epoch Times

U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras on Thursday denied the Trump administration’s bid to delay the reinstatement of Cathy Harris as chairwoman of the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB), pending an appeal.

That now-rejected motion was submitted by the Trump administration on Feb. 20, alongside its appeal of Contreras’s temporary restraining order demanding Harris’s reinstatement.