The Justice Department is asking the Supreme Court to greenlight President Trump’s firing of the head of a federal whistleblower protection office, marking the new Trump administration’s first appeal to the high court.

Lower courts issued rulings temporarily reinstating Hampton Dellinger, whom former President Biden nominated to lead the Office of the Special Counsel (OSC), in his role after Trump fired him earlier this month.

“This case involves an unprecedented assault on the separation of powers that........

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