The Justice Department argued that Dellinger’s continued work as a federal ethics watchdog was undermining Trump’s agenda. In particular, Dellinger has spearheaded a recent effort to reinstate ...

Washington — Hampton Dellinger, the former head of the office that investigates whistleblower retaliation, has dropped his legal challenge to his firing by President Trump from his role as ...

A federal judge had ruled that President Donald Trump’s firing of Special Counsel Hampton Dellinger was unlawful, but the U.S ...

The DC Circuit Court of Appeals, in a two-page order, granted the Trump administration’s request to lift a lower court’s injunction barring the president from removing Hampton Dellinger as the ...

A day after a federal appeals court panel allowed Trump to proceed with his plan to remove Special Counsel Hampton Dellinger, Dellinger issued a statement saying he is dropping his lawsuit ...

Dellinger sued, arguing the president hadn ... As of Thursday, a judge was still considering whether to grant a similar order for Gwynne Wilcox, who until last month was the chairwoman of ...

The decision was the last in a back-and-forth legal saga that started when President Donald Trump attempted on Feb. 7 to fire Hampton Dellinger, the special counsel, whose job included prosecuting ...

That ruling said Dellinger, the head of the Office of Special Counsel, was entitled to stay at his post. “This order gives effect to the removal of appellee from his position as Special Counsel ...