The U.S. is "not an autocracy," Judge Sparkle Sooknanan wrote in her ruling. "It is a system of checks and balances." ...

President Donald Trump suffered another legal loss Wednesday in his bid to fire leaders of the federal agencies that ...

A federal judge ruled Wednesday that President Trump’s firing of the head of a board that resolves disputes between federal employees and the government was unlawful. U.S. District Judge ...

A federal judge has ruled President Donald Trump can't fire the head of the federal labor relations watchdog, dealing another ...

A federal judge said on Wednesday that President Donald Trump lacked the power to remove a Democratic member from the Federal ...

A federal judge on Friday seemed deeply skeptical of a Trump administration lawyer's claim that she lacks the power to ...

The order reinstates a member of the Federal Labor Relations Authority, a key panel for federal workers' unions.

U.S. District Judge Sparkle Sooknanan’s ruling in favor of Susan Grundmann, the Democratic-appointed chair of the Federal Labor Relations Authority (FLRA), is the latest to push back on Trump ...

Susan Tsui Grundmann, an appointee of Trump's Democratic predecessor Joe Biden, was fired on Feb. 11 without explanation.

U.S. District Judge Sparkle Sooknanan rejected the White House's argument that removal protections are unconstitutional, stating that Supreme Court verdicts in the past have proved otherwise.

"The Government's arguments paint with a broad brush and threaten to upend fundamental protections in our Constitution," U.S. District Judge Sparkle Sooknanan wrote. "But ours is not an autocracy ...

The decision by U.S. District Judge Sparkle Sooknanan in Washington, D.C., is a blow to Trump’s broader efforts to assert control over independent agencies and reshape the federal workforce.