As legal challenges to the Trump administration mount, the justices are facing a key test — a flood of “emergency applications” asking for immediate intervention.

The provisional decision affects Gwynne Wilcox, a member of the National Labor Relations Board, and Cathy Harris, a member of the Merit Systems Protection Board.

The Supreme Court reversed that action Wednesday, in line with what Trump requested earlier in the day. "The President should not be forced to delegate his executive power to agency heads who are demonstrably at odds with the Administration’s policy objectives for a single day – much less for the months that it would likely take for the courts to resolve this litigation,

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit sided with the government to block a lower-court ruling that had led to the reinstatement of thousands of federal workers.

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The U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way on Wednesday for President Donald Trump to remove Democratic members of two federal labor boards for now, putting on hold a pair of judicial orders that had shielded them from dismissal.

Chief Justice John Roberts on Wednesday allowed President Donald Trump to temporarily remove two board members at independent labor agencies while the justices consider whether the president may permanently fire them.

President Donald Trump’s administration filed an emergency appeal at the Supreme Court on Wednesday seeking to dismiss board members at two independent federal labor agencies whom he had tried to fire.

A federal appeals court has cleared the way for President Donald Trump’s administration to fire thousands of probationary workers, halting a judge’s order requiring them to be reinstated