NEW: DC appellate court decision related to granting Pres Trump's motion to put on hold Judge Amy Berman Jackson's order reinstating Special Counsel Hampton Dellinger is out--and it's a doozy: 
The appellate panel notes how Dellinger--as I first predicted and proved true--used his power to thwart Pres Trump's agenda to reduce the federal workforce
"The government has sufficiently demonstrated that Dellinger exercises at least enough authority to contradict the President’s directives. " (Dellinger successfully reinstated 6 probationary federal employees fired by the president and then sought to reinstate thousands of USDA probationary employees fired by the president.)
"To be able to obtain the reinstatement of thousands of employees in a single agency, even if only temporarily, with such a vague standard of review seems to suggest the Special Counsel’s powers are not as limited as he claims."
Brutal. This is why Dellinger now is trying to abandon his lawsuit against the president for firing him on Feb 7 without cause per the statute.
"The government has sufficiently demonstrated that Dellinger exercises at least enough authority to contradict the President’s directives. " (Dellinger successfully reinstated 6 probationary federal employees fired by the president and then sought to reinstate thousands of USDA probationary employees fired by the president.)
"To be able to obtain the reinstatement of thousands of employees in a single agency, even if only temporarily, with such a vague standard of review seems to suggest the Special Counsel’s powers are not as limited as he claims."
Brutal. This is why Dellinger now is trying to abandon his lawsuit against the president for firing him on Feb 7 without cause per the statute.
More: "Never mind the tension between Dellinger’s assertions that OSC is critically important to the public interest but simultaneously lacks significant executive power. The more obvious problem is that it is not clear how we could balance the Special Counsel’s asserted public interest against the public interest asserted by the rest of the executive branch."
My recent explainer here. (And don't forget the "legal experts" who claimed Dellinger could do no harm while he remained in that office temporarily. Multiple judges have now effectively refuted that dumb argument.)
declassified.live/p/hampton-dell…
My recent explainer here. (And don't forget the "legal experts" who claimed Dellinger could do no harm while he remained in that office temporarily. Multiple judges have now effectively refuted that dumb argument.)
declassified.live/p/hampton-dell…
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