The Trump administration appealed a federal judge's decision Thursday that the administration's firing of a National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) member was illegal – the same day that the ...
Senior Judge Beryl Howell of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ruled on Thursday that Trump does not have the authority to fire the NLRB board members without cause. Gwynne ...
The January firings of Wilcox and NLRB general counsel Jennifer Abruzzo were an early test of the Trump administration’s power. Though the law specifies a board member can only be fired for ...
Senior Judge Beryl Howell, of U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., said Trump lacks the power to freely fire members of the NLRB, in this case Gwynne Wilcox, the first Black woman to serve on ...
A federal court ruled that Wilcox remains a full member of the NLRB and she was "unlawfully dismissed" by President Trump. According to a press release, on Jan. 27, Trump attempted to dismiss ...
In a scathing ruling, Howell called Trump’s attempt earlier this year to fire Gwynne Wilcox, who had been serving as chair of the NLRB, “a blatant violation of the law … The President’s ...
By December, President Donald Trump had been re-elected. And after he retook the White House on Jan. 20, he ousted the NLRB’s general counsel as well as a Democratic NLRB member, leaving the board ...
The ordered reinstating former NLRB chair Gwynne Wilcox came a month after she sued to be returned to the board. "The President does not have the authority to terminate members of the National ...