Judge Amy Berman Jackson held that President Trump's removal of Hampton Dellinger as the Special Counsel of the Office of Special Counsel was

Hampton Dellinger remains an oddity in this current bleak iteration of the federal government—an uncaptured executive branch official.

A federal appeals court on Wednesday allowed President Donald Trump to temporarily remove the head of an independent watchdog agency who was investigating the administration’s mass firing of probationary federal employees.

A federal judge on Saturday ruled that President Trump’s firing of the head of an office designed to protect government whistleblowers was unlawful.  U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson ruled

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia sided with the Trump administration in allowing the immediate removal of Hampton Dellinger as head of the Office of Special Counsel while the court battle continues. Dellinger is likely to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.

A federal appeals court on Wednesday allowed President Donald Trump to remove Hampton Dellinger as head of the Office of Special Counsel for now, in one of the most prominent legal challenges over presidential power to fire executive branch officials without cause.

A judge declared President Donald Trump's firing of the head of a federal watchdog agency illegal in an early test of the scope of presidential power.

The head of a federal watchdog agency must remain in his job, a judge in Washington ruled on Saturday, saying President Donald Trump's bid to remove the special counsel was unlawful. U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson sided with Hampton Dellinger,

The Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed a request by the Trump administration to lift an order by a federal judge that had instructed it to temporarily reinstate Hampton Dellinger as the head of the Office of Special Counsel.

Hampton Dellinger challenged his termination last month as head of the Office of Special Counsel by suing several Trump administration officials.