The Supreme Court on May 22 formally blocked lower court rulings that prevented President Donald Trump from firing members of independent labor boards.
The new order in Trump v. Wilcox was unsigned.
Justices Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor, and Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented.
Acting on behalf of the high court, Chief Justice John Roberts on April 9 temporarily halted the orders by two Washington-based federal judges that blocked the president’s firings of Cathy Harris from the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) and Gwynne Wilcox from the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) before their terms expire.
Wilcox was appointed to the NLRB by President Joe Biden in 2021 after Senate confirmation. She was reappointed in 2023. Under the National Labor Relations Act, the NLRB hears complaints about employers engaged in alleged unfair labor practices….
Supreme Court Allows Trump Admin to Remove Labor Board Members for Now
