And so Trump’s brief claims that many of the AFGE plaintiffs’ challenges to the proposed mass firings must be heard by the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB), an agency that is currently incapable of hearing these disputes because it lacks a quorum — two of the board’s three seats are vacant.

(Reuters) -Since President Donald Trump returned to office in January, his administration has bombarded the U.S. Supreme Court with emergency requests seeking immediate intervention to free up his initiatives stymied by lower courts.

Demonstrators hit the streets again in L.A. after President Trump deployed the National Guard due to protests against ICE raids.

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