The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit on Wednesday temporarily vacated a district judge’s decision to block the Trump administration from firing Special Counsel Hampton Dellinger while the ...

Special Counsel Hampton Dellinger said in a statement to Government Executive that he is dropping his lawsuit to reverse his removal by Donald Trump, enabling the president to name his own person to ...

President Donald Trump has nominated Charles Baldis as special counsel for the OSC. If the Senate confirms him, Baldis will be the first permanent leader at the agency in more than a year. Trump fired ...

A federal appeals court allowed the Trump administration to remove a top federal ethics watchdog from his office. The order permitting removal of Hampton Dellinger as head of the Office of Special ...

WASHINGTON, D.C., USA — The head of a federal watchdog agency must remain in his job, a judge in Washington ruled on Saturday, saying President Donald Trump's bid to remove the special counsel was ...

WASHINGTON -- An appeals court in Washington removed the head of a federal watchdog agency on Wednesday in the latest twist in a legal fight over Republican President Donald Trump's authority to fire ...

WASHINGTON -- The fired head of a federal watchdog agency said Thursday that he's abandoning his legal battle against the Trump administration to get his job back, acknowledging he was likely facing a ...