{"id":5251,"date":"2025-04-12T21:28:39","date_gmt":"2025-04-12T21:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/chief-justice-halts-for-now-reinstatement-of-fired-members-of-independent-agencies\/"},"modified":"2025-04-12T21:28:39","modified_gmt":"2025-04-12T21:28:39","slug":"chief-justice-halts-for-now-reinstatement-of-fired-members-of-independent-agencies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/chief-justice-halts-for-now-reinstatement-of-fired-members-of-independent-agencies\/","title":{"rendered":"Chief Justice Halts, for Now, Reinstatement of Fired Members of Independent Agencies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<p>Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. on Wednesday temporarily paused court orders reinstating National Labor Relations Board member Gwynne Wilcox and Merit Systems Protection Board member Cathy Harris, two Biden appointees whom President Donald Trump summarily removed from their independent labor agencies.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>  <!----> <!----> <!----><\/p>\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<p>The chief justice&#8217;s temporary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/orders\/courtorders\/040925zr_p8k0.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" link-data=\"{\" cms.site.owner=\"\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">stay <\/a>gives the U.S. Supreme Court additional time to consider the Justice Department&#8217;s request to block the court-ordered reinstatement of Wilcox and Harris. The government argued to the high court in a filing just hours before Roberts&#8217; order that Trump&#8217;s removal of Wilcox and Harris was within his constitutional authority as president. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <!----> <!----> <!----> <!----><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. on Wednesday temporarily paused court orders reinstating National Labor Relations Board member Gwynne Wilcox and Merit Systems Protection Board member Cathy Harris, two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5252,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2303,616,1601,5052,1698,171,1865,4676],"class_list":["post-5251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-agencies","tag-chief","tag-fired","tag-halts","tag-independent","tag-justice","tag-members","tag-reinstatement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}