As part of a rapidly escalating war on corporate and government diversity, equity and inclusion programs, President Donald Trump’s administration and his allies are relying heavily on a two-year-old Supreme Court precedent that says virtually nothing about diversity in the workplace.

The Supreme Court on Friday dashed President Donald Trump’s plan to immediately fire the head of an independent agency that investigates whistleblower claims, allowing Hampton Dellinger to remain in the job through at least the middle of next week.

A federal district judge denied the Associated Press’ effort to regain access to White House events Monday, the latest in a string of court rulings both for and against the Trump administration as President Donald Trump and cost-cutting czar Elon Musk have implemented sweeping changes across the federal government.

The Supreme Court decides not to decide, for now, about Trump’s firing of a government official.

President Donald Trump is heading to the Supreme Court for the first time in his second term, using an emergency appeal to call on the justices to let him fire the head of a government ethics watchdog agency. The case, Bessent v. Dellinger, could ...

A couple of days earlier, Trump posted, “He who saves his Country does not violate any law,” a quote attributed to the 19th-century French emperor and dictator Napoleon. That’s not exactly the Founding Fathers, who went to war to free Americans from the rule of kings.

Historically, the Supreme Court has struck down some executive orders as outside the scope of Article 2. As the court wrote in 1952, “In the framework of our Constitution, the President’s power to see that the laws are faithfully executed refutes the idea that he is to be a lawmaker.”