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itemprop="headline">Trump Asks Supreme Court to Let Him Fire Agency Head</h1> <p class="entry-meta"><time class="entry-time" itemprop="datePublished" datetime="2025-02-16T23:00:59-05:00">February 16, 2025 at 11:00 pm EST</time> By <span class="entry-author" itemprop="author" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a href="https://politicalwire.com/author/tdg/" class="entry-author-link" rel="author" itemprop="url" data-wpel-link="internal"><span class="entry-author-name" itemprop="name">Taegan Goddard</span></a></span> <span class="entry-comments-link"><a href="https://politicalwire.com/2025/02/16/trump-asks-supreme-court-to-let-him-fire-agency-head/#respond" data-wpel-link="internal"><span class="dsq-postid" data-dsqidentifier="1760414 https://politicalwire.com/2025/02/16/trump-asks-supreme-court-to-let-him-fire-agency-head/">Leave a Comment</span></a></span> </p></header><div class="entry-content" itemprop="text"> <p>“The administration asked the Supreme Court on Sunday to clear the way for the president to fire the leader of an independent agency that investigates whistleblower reports filed by government workers — the first time President Donald Trump has appealed to the justices for help in his efforts to remake and seize greater control of the federal bureaucracy,” the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/02/16/trump-supreme-court-executive-power/" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank">Washington Post</a> reports.</p> <p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/16/us/trump-supreme-court-special-counsel.html" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank">New York Times</a>: “The administration’s emergency application asked the court to vacate a federal trial judge’s order temporarily reinstating Hampton Dellinger, the head of the Office of Special Counsel. Mr. Dellinger leads an independent agency charged with safeguarding government whistle-blowers and enforcing certain ethics laws.”</p> <p><a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/16/trump-firing-watchdog-supreme-court-00204571" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank">Politico</a>: Fight over Trump’s firing of watchdog reaches Supreme Court.</p> <span class='wpfp-span'><img src='https://politicalwire.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Bookmark-e1487617811729.png' alt='Favorite' title='Favorite' class='wpfp-img' /><img src='https://politicalwire.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-favorite-posts/img/loading.gif' alt='Loading' title='Loading' class='wpfp-hide wpfp-img' /><a class="wpfp-link" href="?wpfpaction=add&postid=1760414" title="Save to Favorites" rel="nofollow" data-wpel-link="internal">Save to Favorites</a></span></div><div id="dpsp-content-bottom" class="dpsp-content-wrapper dpsp-shape-rectangular dpsp-size-medium dpsp-has-spacing dpsp-no-labels-mobile dpsp-show-on-mobile 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