Official Terminated by Trump Ends Legal Fight After Court Ruling

The fired head of an executive branch agency said on March 6 he’s ending his legal battle against President Donald Trump’s administration. Hampton Dellinger, who had been the head of the Office of Special Counsel (OSC), said he was ending litigation he lodged over his termination due to a federal appeals court siding with Trump. Three judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled Wednesday that Trump could fire Dellinger. “This new ruling means that OSC will be run by someone totally beholden to the President for the months that would pass before I could get a final decision from the U.S. Supreme Court,” Dellinger said in a statement....