6 Probationary Employees Get Their Jobs Back After Fired Biden Holdover Hampton Dellinger Rules Trum

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6 Probationary Employees Get Their Jobs Back After Fired Biden Holdover Hampton Dellinger Rules Trump’s Firings Are Illegal
by Cristina Laila Feb. 26, 2025 11:40 am

A federal board paused the firings of 6 probationary employees after fired Biden holdover Hampton Dellinger ruled their firings were illegal.

President Trump fired Hampton Dellinger, Special Counsel of the Office of Special Counsel (not to be confused with a special counsel hired as a federal prosecutor) a few weeks ago.

However, shortly after the firing, corrupt Obama Judge Amy Berman Jackson sided with Hampton Dellinger, issued an administrative stay, and allowed him to keep his job.

President Trump filed an emergency application to the US Supreme Court, however, the high court held Trump’s emergency request “in abeyance”, which means that the court could make a decision at a later date.

Emboldened by the Supreme Court’s refusal to intervene, Hampton Dellinger is now attacking President Trump’s decision to terminate “probationary” employees.

In a statement released on Monday, Hampton Dellinger said some of Trump’s firings of probationary employees appear to be illegal.

“Last Friday, Special Counsel Hampton Dellinger filed initial requests to “stay,” or pause, the apparently impermissible terminations of six probationary employees across various executive branch agencies. The requests, filed with the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB), seek a 45-day stay of the terminations because there are reasonable grounds to believe that agencies engaged in prohibited personnel practices (PPPs) under 5 U.S.C. § 2302(b)(12) by terminating the employees in violation of federal laws and regulations governing probationary terminations and reductions in force,” Hampton Dellinger’s office said.

“Since the Civil Service Reform Act was passed in 1978, the merit system principles have guided how federal government agencies hire, manage, and, if necessary, remove federal employees. These principles establish that all federal employees, including those in a probationary status, should be evaluated based on individual performance,” Dellinger said.

Dellinger added: “Firing probationary employees without individualized cause appears contrary to a reasonable reading of the law, particularly the provisions establishing rules for reductions in force. Because Congress has directed that OSC ‘shall’ protect government employees from PPPs, I believe I have a responsibility to request a stay of these actions while my agency continues to investigate further the apparent violation of federal personnel laws.”

Late Tuesday evening, the Merit Systems Protection Board ordered a 45 day stay on Trump’s firings of 6 employees.

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https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/6-probationary-employees-get-their-jobs-back-after/

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Stoopid laws stifling Executive Orders.  Congress could always pass a new law (yeah right) for the President to sign.

It's the Congress' job to make sausage.  Time to make some damned sausage, GOP Congress (queue the chirping crickets).

This is the moment when a do-nothing GOP Congress proves its lack of worth to Trump.

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Federal judge rules Trump’s firing of head of special counsel was unlawful, will maintain his job
Hampton Dellinger sued the Trump administration after his Feb. 7 firing
By Haley Chi-Sing Fox News
Published March 1, 2025 9:15pm EST | Updated March 1, 2025 10:47pm EST

A D.C.-based federal district judge ruled late Saturday evening that President Donald Trump's firing of the head of the Office of Special Counsel was unlawful, keeping him in his post. The Trump administration filed their notice of appeal shortly thereafter.

Hampton Dellinger, appointed by former President Joe Biden to head the Office of Special Counsel, sued the Trump administration in Washington, D.C., federal court after his Feb. 7 firing.

D.C. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson wrote in the Saturday filing that the court's ruling that Dellinger's firing was "unlawful" is consistent with Supreme Court precedent.

The Trump administration filed its notice of appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit shortly after Jackson's ruling.

Jackson wrote that the court "finds that the elimination of the restrictions on plaintiff’s removal would be fatal to the defining and essential feature of the Office of Special Counsel as it was conceived by Congress and signed into law by the President:  its independence.  The Court concludes that they must stand."

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https://www.foxnews.com/politics/federal-judge-rules-trumps-firing-head-special-counsel-unlawful-maintain-his-job