A federal judge said on Wednesday that President Donald Trump lacked the power to remove a Democratic member from the Federal Labor Relations Authority and ordered that Susan Tsui Grundmann be reinstated. The decision by U.S. District Judge Sparkle Sooknanan in Washington, D.C., is a setback to Trump’s bid to bring independent agencies like the FLRA under his control, and potentially to his efforts to drastically shrink the federal workforce.
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