Wilcox's lawsuit, which was filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, asserts that her dismissal was a "blatant violation" of the National Labor Relations Act that protects board members from being fired by the president without cause.

Gwynne Wilcox’s lawsuit is the first to challenge the president’s ouster of several members of independent boards — moves that appear to contravene a 1935 Supreme Court ruling.

Gwynne Wilcox, who was appointed to the board by former President Joe Biden, said in a lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia that her firing last week violated U.S. law.

This extraordinary act, which was not only contrary to statute but clearly unlawful under a 90-year-old Supreme Court precedent.