‘Direct conflict with nearly a century of precedent’: Trump violated law by firing Biden ethics enforcer appointed to stop ‘circumstances such as these,’ lawsuit says

Left: President Donald Trump gives remarks during an event celebrating the 2024 Stanley Cup Champion the Florida Panthers in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC on Monday, February 3, 2025 (Photo by Aaron Schwartz/Sipa USA)(Sipa via AP Images). Right: Hampton Dellinger (Office of Special Counsel).

Left: President Donald Trump gives remarks during an event celebrating the 2024 Stanley Cup Champion the Florida Panthers in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC on Monday, Feb. 3, 2025 (Photo by Aaron Schwartz/Sipa USA)(Sipa via AP Images). Right: Hampton Dellinger (Office of Special Counsel).

President Donald Trump has been hit with yet another legal challenge related to controversial moves he’s made since taking office, with his widespread axing of government officials — including a Biden administration leader tasked with protecting federal whistleblowers — prompting two lawsuits now in less than a week.

Hampton Dellinger, who was appointed by President Joe Biden in February 2024 to lead the Office of Special Counsel and enforce whistleblower laws, filed a lawsuit Monday in the District of Columbia after being fired by the Trump administration on Friday “in a one-sentence email,” according to his federal complaint.

“On behalf of President Donald J. Trump, I am writing to inform you that your position as Special Counsel of the US Office of Special Counsel is terminated, effective immediately,” the email said, according to Dellinger’s complaint, which accuses Trump’s “purported removal” of the ethics enforcer as being “unlawful.”

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