Trump asks Supreme Court to allow whistleblower office firing

After President Donald Trump fired Hampton Dellinger from the Office of Special Counsel earlier this month and lower courts reinstated him claiming executive overreach, the Trump Justice Department has appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court to allow the firing.

Dellinger was nominated by former President Joe Biden to the position, which protects whistleblowers who come forward with information about potential government wrongdoing.

Many of Trump's actions to reshape the federal government have led to lawsuits by the deep state or Democrats.

In this case, the Justice Department made it clear that it's the courts overreaching, not Trump.

“Until now, as far as we are aware, no court in American history has wielded an injunction to force the President to retain an agency head whom the President believes should not be entrusted with executive power and to prevent the President from relying on his preferred replacement,” the Justice Department wrote in its Supreme Court application.

A ruling by the Supreme Court would not resolve the case permanently but would keep Dellinger out of the position until the lawsuit against Trump is resolved.