President Donald Trump’s firing of the former chairwoman of the National Labor Relations Board was an “illegal act,” a federal judge ruled ... year to fire Gwynne Wilcox, who had been ...

U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell in Washington, D.C., found Trump did not have the authority to remove Gwynne Wilcox from the National Labor Relations Board. “An American president is not a king ...

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The judge agreed with Wilcox. "In the ninety years since the NLRB’s founding, the President has never removed a member of the Board," Howell wrote. "His attempt to do so here is blatantly ...

National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) Member Gwynne Wilcox, removed by President Donald Trump during his first days in office, has been reinstated by a federal judge of the U.S. District Court for ...

A federal judge ordered a member of the National Labor ... authority to fire the NLRB board members without cause. Gwynne Wilcox, at the time of her firing, said she would fight it because it ...

The judge also delivered a warning about Trump’s multi-faceted bid to expand presidential power. She noted that, in defending the firing of Wilcox, Justice Department lawyers cited the Supreme ...

But the judge said that until and unless the high court acts, current law clearly supports keeping Wilcox in her role.The Trump administration quickly appealed her ruling,Wilcox sued Trump after ...

Decision restores quorum of three members to labor board US law limits reasons for removing NLRB members 'An American President is not a king,' judge says ... removed Gwynne Wilcox in January.

U.S. District Court Judge Beryl Howell ordered Thursday for Gwynne Wilcox to be reinstated to her position as a member of the National Labor Relations Board, ruling that Wilcox was “unlawfully ...