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

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 ...

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’s ...

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

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 ...

A federal judge handed President Donald Trump another loss in court this week in a ruling on a case involving a fired member ...