Civil service board chair fired by Trump implores full appeals court for one more chance to keep her job
Source: Law & Crime
Mar 29th, 2025, 3:27 pm
A member of the Merit Systems Protection Board who was removed by President Donald Trump earlier this year has asked for an appellate court to reconsider its opinion allowing her firing to go forward. On Feb. 10, the 45th and 47th president tried to fire Cathy Harris, a Joe Biden appointee whose term expires in 2028, in an email from an assistant, telling her she was “terminated, effective immediately.”
Harris sued in Washington, D.C., and days later won her job back through a temporary restraining order issued in February — and then a permanent injunction which was issued earlier this month — by U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras, a Barack Obama appointee.
On Friday, a three-judge panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit issued a 2-1 ruling in the government’s favor, staying the injunction. The ruling allows Trump to fire both Harris and National Labor Relations Board member Gwynne Wilcox — who had also won reprieve from a politically-motivated firing at the district court level. Now, Harris is asking for the trio to give her another bite at the apple — and to allow her to hold onto her job in the interim.
“Harris requests the panel administratively stay its order granting the government’s motion pending Harris’s forthcoming petition to the en banc Court,” the motion for an emergency administrative stay reads. “If the special panel denies this motion for an administrative stay, Harris requests the en banc Court issue an administrative stay.” The panel’s ruling conflicts with long-standing precedent.
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Full headline: ‘Should not let this aberrational result stand’: Civil service board chair fired by Trump implores full appeals court for one more chance to keep her job
Link to MOTION (PDF viewer) - https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25873371-harris-en-banc/
Link to MOTION (PDF) - https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25873371/harris-en-banc.pdf
REFERENCE - https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143428446
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