The Trump administration is seeking emergency relief from the U.S. Supreme Court after lower courts prevented the White House from firing Hampton Dellinger as the single head of the Office of Special Counsel.
“This case involves an unprecedented assault on the separation of powers that warrants immediate relief,” acting U.S. Solicitor General Sarah M. Harris wrote in an application asking the high court to toss out the trial court’s temporary restraining order. “Until now, as far as we are aware, no court in American history has wielded an injunction to force the President to retain an agency head whom the President believes should not be entrusted with executive power and to prevent the President from relying on his preferred replacement.”
