Court rules Trump’s firing of labor board chief illegal, saying president is not a king

Judge orders reinstatement of Gwynne Wilcox, first member of National Labor Relations Board to be removed by a US president

A federal court ruled that Donald Trump’s abrupt firing of a former senior official at the top US labor watchdog was illegal, and ordered that she be reinstated.

Gwynne Wilcox was the first member of the National Labor Relations Board to be removed by a US president since the board’s inception in 1935.

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