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Trump Brings First Appeal to Supreme Court

The Trump administration’s first major Supreme Court appeal challenges a lower court’s order reinstating Hampton Dellinger, a Biden appointee, as head of the Office of Special Counsel. The Daily Caller reported that Trump removed Dellinger, who sued to regain his position. The Administration’s Acting Solicitor General Sarah Harris argued the case is an “unprecedented assault on the separation of powers,” saying courts should not block a president’s ability to dismiss executive officers. The D.C. Circuit Court denied Trump’s appeal to lift the order, prompting the administration to seek immediate Supreme Court intervention.

Trump’s early actions, including funding freezes, also face legal pushback that White House officials call overreach. More from The Daily Caller:

The petition also asks the justices to “end the practice whereby courts seize Article II powers for two weeks, yet disclaim the availability of any appellate review in the meantime.”

Trump’s early actions have been blocked by temporary restraining orders, including the funding freeze and a restriction on hospitals that offer child sex-changes receiving federal funds. White House officials have called out the orders as judicial overreach, slamming them for blocking legitimate uses of executive power.

“The First Congress rejected the idea that the President would need to obtain the Senate’s advice and consent to remove a principal executive officer,” Harris wrote in the petition. “No one imagined that the President might need to obtain the advice and consent of a federal district court.”