U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell in Washington, D.C. ruled that President Trump’s firing of National Labor Relations Board member Gwynne Wilcox was unlawful and said she must be allowed to continue in her role. Howell said that the President’s firing of Wilcox violated federal law that allows for NLRB board members to be removed “only for neglect of duty or malfeasance in office.” Howell also noted in her ruling that “the President seems intent on pushing the bounds of his office and exercising his power in a manner violative of clear statutory law to test how much the courts will accept the notion of a presidency that is supreme.”
