The Supreme Court went out of its way to note in an unrelated ruling Thursday that Donald Trump cannot legally remove Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell. In a decision that did allow Trump to fire two members of independent federal labor boards,

The Supreme Court protected the Federal Reserve on Thursday, even as it allowed President Trump to fire the board members of two other independent agencies, potentially insulating central bank officials such as Chair Jerome Powell against any immediate removal by the White House.

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A federal appeals court cleared the way on Wednesday for 18 federal agencies to once again fire thousands of employees who lost their jobs as part of President Donald Trump's purge of the ...

In a win for the White House, a federal appeals court has ruled that the administration can once again fire thousands of probationary federal workers who were just reinstated.