A federal judge ruled Saturday that President Donald Trump's administration had unlawfully fired the head of a federal watchdog agency and blocked his removal from the office, court documents show.

President Donald Trump's administration was back in court Monday to justify its actions in dismantling of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). The union representing CFPB workers sued to stop the bureau from being shut down as part of Trump's government-wide cuts.

A judge declared President Donald Trump's firing of the head of a federal watchdog agency illegal in an early test of the scope of presidential power.

A federal judge has ruled that the head of a federal watchdog agency must remain in his job, saying President Donald Trump’s bid to remove the special counsel was unlawful.

A federal appeals court allowed the Trump administration to remove a top federal ethics watchdog from his office. The order permitting removal of Hampton Dellinger as head of the Office of Special Counsel came days after a federal judge ruled that President Donald Trump's attempt to boot him was "unlawful.

A federal watchdog for government workers is throwing in the towel in his legal fight against President Donald Trump’s attempt to fire him. A day after a federal appeals court panel allowed Trump to proceed with his plan to remove Special Counsel Hampton Dellinger,

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With a possible Supreme Court showdown lurking, a federal judge in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday weighed whether she should toss another lifeline to Biden ethics enforcer Hampton Dellinger. The post ‘We’re in some other world now’: Judge calls out Trump DOJ for running to SCOTUS over ‘unappealable TRO’ and asks if ‘only what the current president wants’ is law now first appeared on Law & Crime.

A judge directed pointed questions on Monday at the Trump administration about whether its decision to halt most activity within the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau violated the law. Judge Amy Berman Jackson expressed concern that acting Director Russ Vought's orders to stop activity at the CFPB,