A federal judge on Thursday ruled that President Trump unlawfully removed a Democratic member of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), suggesting in her ruling that the president sought to test the limits of his power in doing so.

U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell ruled in favor of Gwynne Wilcox, who became the first to be removed from the board since its inception in 1935. The judge indefinitely reinstated Wilcox to her position, deeming the firing now “null and void.”

“The President seems intent on pushing the bounds of his office and exercising his power in a manner violative of clear statutory law to test how much the courts will accept the notion of a presidency that is supreme,” Howell wrote in a 36-page opinion.

“The courts are now again forced to determine how much encroachment on the legislature our Constitution can bear and face a slippery slope toward endorsing a presidency that is untouchable by the law,” she said. “The President has given no sufficient reason to accept that path here.”

Wilcox, the first Black woman to serve on the board, was confirmed in 2023 to a term lasting five........

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