The ruling, in a case seen as a test of the president’s push for expansive executive authority, cripples the operations of the Merit Systems Protection Board and the National Labor Relations Board. By ...

Transparency and accountability are cornerstones of trust in government. The U.S. Office of Special Counsel exists to protect ...

There’s a quorum again on the board that hears appeals of firings and suspensions of federal employees after a majority of judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit vacated an earlier ...

In its 2-1 decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia said Humphrey’s Executor v. U.S.—establishing that the president cannot fire without cause appointees at certain independent ...