‘Irreparably harm the presidency’: Trump asks SCOTUS to let him fire Biden ethics enforcer, claims he’s suffering ‘unprecedented assault on the separation of powers’

Hampton Dellinger (Office of Special Counsel).

Left: President-elect Donald Trump on “Meet the Press” Sunday, Dec. 8, 2024 (NBC News/YouTube). Right: Hampton Dellinger (Office of Special Counsel).

The Trump administration has issued an urgent plea to the U.S. Supreme Court, asking it to quickly take up and start weighing the grounds for vacating a lower court’s order that allowed Joe Biden’s ethics enforcer Hampton Dellinger to keep his job at the Office of Special Counsel after he was granted an extension Wednesday by a federal judge in Washington, D.C.

Trump’s Justice Department says Dellinger is “wielding executive power” and has barred the president from firing federal employees that his administration claims are unfit to work for the government, according to a letter sent by the DOJ to the Supreme Court on Wednesday. Trump’s DOJ is requesting that — “at a minimum” — the country’s highest court continue to hold an application that was filed by DOJ lawyers earlier this month to hear the Dellinger case after attempts to terminate him were shot down by a federal appeals court and the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

In response, Dellinger and his lawyers sent out a letter of their own on Thursday, claiming Trump’s legal team has no idea what it’s talking about and is misinterpreting what actually happened with the firings.

“The government misdescribes what occurred,” wrote Dellinger attorney Joshua Matz to the Supreme Court.

“It was the MSPB, not the Special Counsel, that ‘halt[ed]’ certain personnel actions and it is the MSPB (not the Special Counsel) that will render any further decisions and issue any binding orders within the Executive Branch’s internal administrative process concerning the propriety of those personnel actions,” Matz said. “As the Special Counsel is fully prepared to explain when the government properly raises this issue within the litigation, there is no merit to the government’s assertion that this administrative action supports its position. To the contrary, a more accurate understanding of that process confirms the Special Counsel’s position concerning his for-cause removal protection.”

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