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Fri Dec 5, 2025, 10:47 AM Friday

JUST IN: DC Circuit panel splits, 2-1, upholding Trump's right to fire NLRB & MSPB members

Josh Gerstein
‪@joshgerstein.bsky.social‬

JUST IN: DC Circuit panel splits, 2-1, upholding Trump's right to fire NLRB & MSPB members. Court says those agencies wield too much executive power to not be accountable to POTUS. Majority: Katsas/Walker (both Trump). Dissent: Pan (Biden). Doc:
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cadc.41769/gov.uscourts.cadc.41769.01208802438.0.pdf

JUST IN: DC Circuit panel splits, 2-1, upholding Trump's right to fire NLRB & MSPB members. Court says those agencies wield too much executive power to not be accountable to POTUS. Majority: Katsas/Walker (both Trump). Dissent: Pan (Biden). Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Josh Gerstein (@joshgerstein.bsky.social) 2025-12-05T15:27:17.049Z

JUST IN: A 2-1 panel of the D.C. Circuit rules that Trump may remove members of the NLRB or MSPB regardless of laws meant to shield them from removal without cause.

Majority: Rao (Trump), Katsas (Trump)
Dissent: Pan (Biden)
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney.bsky.social) 2025-12-05T15:21:26.949Z

In her dissent, Judge Pan says the emerging view of executive power by Trump and his backers in the courts "concentrates excessive power in the President and thus paves the way to autocracy." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney.bsky.social) 2025-12-05T15:23:45.039Z
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JUST IN: DC Circuit panel splits, 2-1, upholding Trump's right to fire NLRB & MSPB members (Original Post) In It to Win It Friday OP
King trmp. spanone Friday #1
MSPB is the Merit Systems Protection Board WestMichRad Friday #2

WestMichRad

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2. MSPB is the Merit Systems Protection Board
Fri Dec 5, 2025, 11:13 AM
Friday

And NLRB is National Labor Relations Board

“The Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) is an independent agency that protects federal employees from improper employment actions and ensures adherence to merit system principles. It hears appeals from federal employees regarding adverse actions like removals and suspensions, promoting a fair and effective federal workforce.” - Library of Congress website

Administration is trying to make it so that federal government employees have no legal recourse against baseless political firings.

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