A federal court ruled that Wilcox remains a full member of the NLRB and she was "unlawfully dismissed" by President Trump. According to a press release, on Jan. 27, Trump attempted to dismiss ...

Senior Judge Beryl Howell, of U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., said Trump lacks the power to freely fire members of the NLRB, in this case Gwynne Wilcox, the first Black woman to serve on ...

The January firings of Wilcox and NLRB general counsel Jennifer Abruzzo were an early test of the Trump administration’s power. Though the law specifies a board member can only be fired for ...

Senior Judge Beryl Howell of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ruled on Thursday that Trump does not have the authority to fire the NLRB board members without cause. Gwynne ...

Her opinion mirrored the hearing she held Wednesday, when she delved into the history of the NLRB and unspooled the development of the unitary executive theory, a maximal version of which would ...

By December, President Donald Trump had been re-elected. And after he retook the White House on Jan. 20, he ousted the NLRB’s general counsel as well as a Democratic NLRB member, leaving the board ...

Wilcox’s attorneys said no president previously had tried to remove an NLRB member. They argued that board members can only be fired “for neglect of duty or malfeasance in office” and only ...