Appeals court hears arguments about Trump's offer to dismiss 2 board members

Washington – On Tuesday, a lawyer of the Ministry of Justice asked an appellate court to suspend court descriptions that favored two board members, which was released by President Donald Trump from her respective positions in the Federal Government.

A three-judge committee of the US Court of Appeal for the District of Columbia Circuit did not immediately governing the lawyers after hearing arguments.

On March 4, the US district judge Rudolph Contreras decided that Trump illegally tried to dismiss a member of the board member of the earnings system, Cathy Harris. Two days later, the US district judge Beryl Howell decided that Trump was not authorized to remove Gwynne Wilcox from the National Labor Relations Board.

The Trump administration is looking for a stay of these commands while making an appeal against the decisions. The Court of Appeal will hear arguments on the merits of the government's appeal to a date that is to be determined.

Government lawyers argue that the decisions of the judges undermine Trump's ability to legally exercise his executive authority. “They are agency heads that do not answer anyone apart from the president,” said Eric McArthur, lawyer of the Ministry of Justice.

The lawyers of the board members claim that the precedent of the US Court of Justice is on their side.

“The government asks her to throw centuries of precedent,” said Nathaniel Zelinsky, a lawyer of Harris, the panel.

“These statutes have been around for a century, and the presidents have not injured them around them,” said Deepak Guppa, a Wilcox lawyer.

Harris was appointed to the board by President Joe Biden in 2021. In 2023, bids nominated Wilcox at a second term of five years as a NLRB member.

The case was heard by the judges Karen Lecraft Henderson, Patricia Millett and Justin Walker. Trump nominated Walker in 2020 during his first term in the White House.