{"id":34777,"date":"2025-03-02T04:59:11","date_gmt":"2025-03-02T04:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/02\/trumps-firing-of-watchdog-agency-chief-illegal-and-would-give-license-to-bully-officials-judge-rules\/"},"modified":"2025-03-02T04:59:11","modified_gmt":"2025-03-02T04:59:11","slug":"trumps-firing-of-watchdog-agency-chief-illegal-and-would-give-license-to-bully-officials-judge-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/02\/trumps-firing-of-watchdog-agency-chief-illegal-and-would-give-license-to-bully-officials-judge-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s firing of watchdog agency chief illegal and would give \u2018license to bully officials\u2019, judge rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Case is seen as early test of scope of presidential authority as Trump seeks to rein in federal agencies\u2019 independence<\/p>\n<p>A US judge on Saturday declared president Donald Trump\u2019s firing of the head of a federal watchdog agency illegal in an early test of the scope of presidential power likely to be decided at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/us-supreme-court\">US supreme court<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>US district judge Amy Berman Jackson in Washington had previously ruled that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/feb\/22\/supreme-court-blocks-firing-head-federal-whistleblower-protection-office\">Hampton Dellinger<\/a>, head of the Office of Special Counsel who is responsible for protecting whistleblowers, could remain in his post pending a ruling.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/mar\/02\/trumps-firing-of-watchdog-agency-chief-and-would-give-license-to-bully-officials-judge-rules\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Case is seen as early test of scope of presidential authority as Trump seeks to rein in federal agencies\u2019 independence A US judge on Saturday declared president Donald Trump\u2019s firing of the head of a federal watchdog agency illegal in an early test of the scope of presidential power likely to be decided at the &#8230; <a title=\"Trump\u2019s firing of watchdog agency chief illegal and would give \u2018license to bully officials\u2019, judge rules\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/02\/trumps-firing-of-watchdog-agency-chief-illegal-and-would-give-license-to-bully-officials-judge-rules\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump\u2019s firing of watchdog agency chief illegal and would give \u2018license to bully officials\u2019, judge rules\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}