ReutersPresident Donald Trump asked the United States Supreme Court to allow him to dismiss the head of an independent ethics agency which protects federal denunciation employees.
He filed an emergency call in the highest court in the country to judge if he can fire Hampton Dellinger, head of the US office of special advisor.
It is believed that this is the first case linked to the Blizzard of Trump executives actions to reach the highest court.
Trump has also reduced more than a dozen general inspectors in various federal agencies and has dismissed thousands of employees across the United States government.
Mr. Dellinger, who was appointed by President Joe Biden, continued the Trump administration after being dismissed by email this month.
He argued that his dismissal had broken a law which says that he can only be rejected for poor performance at work and which was not given as reason in the email which rejected him.
Among the agency lists among its main objectives the protection of federal employees against illegal actions in retaliation for denunciation, According to his mission statement.
A Washington DC Federal Judge made a temporary order on Wednesday allowing Mr. Dellinger to keep his post while the case is examined.
District judge Amy Berman Jackson said that the dismissal had violated the US law which had attempted to guarantee the independence of the agency and to protect it from political interference.
On Saturday, an American court of appeal divided into the country’s capital rejected the Trump administration to prevail over the lower courtyard.
This led the Ministry of Justice to file an emergency appeal to the Supreme Court dominated by the Conservatives, a file seen by various American media.
“This court should not allow the lower courts to seize the executive power by dictating to the president how long he must continue to employ an agency chief against his will,” wrote Sarah M Harris, acting general solicitor, in the file provided by the Ministry of Justice At Washington Post.
“Until now, to our knowledge, no court in American history has been an injunction to force the president to keep an agency chief,” wrote the acting general, according to the news agency of the Associated Press.
The orders of the Republican President on Immigration, Transgender Questions and Public Expenditure is also bogged down in dozens of prosecution before the lower courts. These cases can finally be found at the Supreme Court.
Trump’s efforts to reduce and reshape the 2.3 million civilian federal work continued during the weekend.
Workers from various health agencies that are still in their periods of probation have received letters on Saturday evening informing them that they would be terminated, sources said in CBS News, the American partner of the BBC.
“Unfortunately, the agency notes that you are not suitable for continuous employment because your capacities, knowledge and skills do not correspond to the current needs of the agency, and your performance has not been sufficient to justify a Additional employment to the agency “, reads the letters.
At least 9,500 workers in the departments of health and social services, energy, veterans, interior and agriculture were dismissed by Trump, according to a statement by the news agency Reuters.
According to the White House.
The cost reduction initiative was led by the Ministry of Government efficiency, or DOGE, a working group led by Elon Musk.
The Democrats have criticized Musk, the richest man in the world, as not elected and his actions that is too swelling.
