Fired NLRB Member Reinstated in Decision Nixing Trump Move (4)

Gwynne Wilcox can return to the National Labor Relations Board after a federal judge reversed President Donald Trump’s termination of her.

Trump lacked the authority to fire members of the NLRB despite their for-cause removal protections, and his dismissal of Wilcox “was a blatant violation of the law,” Judge Beryl Howell, an Obama appointee to the US District Court for the District of Columbia, ruled Thursday.

“A President who touts an image of himself as a ‘king’ or a ‘dictator,’ perhaps as his vision of effective leadership, fundamentally misapprehends the role under Article II of the U.S. Constitution,” Howell ...