Supreme Court Pauses Orders Forcing Trump Admin to Rehire Labor Board Members

Biden appointees Gwynne Wilcox of National Labor Relations Board and Cathy Harris of Merit Systems Protection Board were fired soon after Trump took office.

The U.S. Supreme Court in Washington on April 3, 2025. Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times

The Supreme Court on April 9 temporarily paused two lower court rulings that blocked President Donald Trump from firing members of independent labor boards.

The order came mere hours after the Trump administration filed an emergency application in Trump v. Wilcox and Bessent v. Harris seeking to stay the lower court orders.