A federal judge instructed the lawyers before her to walk through the history of the National Labor Relations Board and the long effort to degrade agency independence, providing a bird’s-eye primer for the public on President Donald Trump’s attempt to put the entire executive branch under his direct control.

One of the things that the Constitution was intended to accomplish was not to have a monarchy, but was intended to have instead a democracy, where the Congress would set the institutional arrangements,

A federal judge on Wednesday questioned President Donald Trump's power to fire a Democratic member of the National Labor Relations Board and seemed deeply skeptical of the expansive theory of presidential power being put forward by his administration.

A federal judge ruled Tuesday that the Trump administration’s firing of a federal employee appeals board member was unlawful. U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras ruled in favor of Cathy

U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras found that the termination violated long-standing Supreme Court precedent limiting the president’s ability to remove independent officials.

A federal judge on Tuesday blocked Republican U.S. President Donald Trump from firing the Democratic chair of a U.S. agency that hears appeals by federal government employees when they are fired or disciplined.

A federal judge in Washington has ruled that President Donald Trump did not have the authority to attempt to fire a member of the board responsible for protecting federal government employees from pol

President Donald Trump unlawfully removed a member of a federal office that protects government employees from partisan interference, a federal judge ruled Tuesday.

Attorney General Nick Brown on Wednesday announced that Washington state has joined a lawsuit over the “illegal” federal worker firings carried out by President Donald Trump’s administration. The lawsuit takes aim at the U.

A federal judge issued a permanent injunction Tuesday blocking President Donald Trump from firing a board member overseeing protections to federal workers—potentially teeing up the case being sent to the Supreme Court—the latest in a string of court rulings involving Trump and cost-cutting czar Elon Musk’s sweeping changes across the federal government.