Gwynne Wilcox’s lawsuit is the first to challenge the president’s ouster of several members of independent boards — moves ...

The U.S. Department of Justice will cease defending the independent status of three consumer and worker protection agencies, ...

Wilcox's lawsuit, which was filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, asserts that her dismissal was a ...

In Humphrey's Executor v. United States, the high court held in 1935 that a president must have cause to fire the member of a ...

The National Labor Relations Act, for instance, says board members “may be removed by the president, upon notice and hearing, for neglect of duty or malfeasance in office, but for no other cause.” ...

On Monday night, he dismissed two of the three Democrats on the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ... He also fired the chair of the National Labor Relations Board, Gwynne Wilcox ...

President Donald Trump’s purge at independent agencies is putting a target on a nearly 100-year-old Supreme Court precedent that protects certain officials from the political whims of the White House.

Gwynne Wilcox, a Democratic member of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) fired by President Trump, sued him on ...

Convention means nothing to Donald Trump. Neither does the Constitution. Since re-assuming office, he has summarily dismissed the Chair of the Federal Election Commission (FEC) and a member of the ...

The President’s unprecedented removal of Ms. Wilcox defies 90 years of Supreme Court precedent that has ensured the independence of critical government agencies," Gwynne Wilcox' attorney Deepak Gupta ...

The National Labor Relations Act, for instance, says board members “may be removed by the president, upon notice and hearing, ...