Roger Severino sued then-President Joe Biden in 2021 for dismissing him before the end of his term on an independent agency called the Administrative Conference of the United States.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit’s decision against Severino laid the groundwork for the court’s decision on Friday that President Donald Trump can fire holdover Biden appointees at “independent agencies.”

The appeals court paused a U.S. District Court’s orders restoring fired members of the National Labor Relations Board and Merit Systems Protection Board to their jobs.

?? HUGE. DC Circuit holds @POTUS can fire holdover Biden appointees at “independent agencies.” Cites Severino v. Biden after DOJ worked itself in knots defending Biden’s firing of me before my Trump-appointed position at ACUS expired. Turnabout is fair play. pic.twitter.com/5oG8b4fvKe

The White House celebrated the ruling, with press secretary Karoline Leavitt saying Cabinet secretaries reserve the right to hire and fire at their agencies.

“As for agencies within the president’s executive authority, the president retains that right,” Leavitt told The Daily Signal. “And we’ve seen there have been bureaucrats at some of these agencies that have been trying to act independent. They need to remember who they work for. It’s the executive of the executive branch.”

The DC Circuit decided the President can fire Biden-holdover employees at independent agencies.

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