Judge Reinstates Labor Board Member Fired By Trump

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge has ruled Thursday that President Donald Trump acted illegally when he fired a member of an independent labor agency, and the judge ordered that she be allowed to remain on the job. National Labor Relations Board member Gwynne Wilcox sued Trump after he fired her and the agency’s general counsel. U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell in Washington, D.C., found that Trump did not have the authority to remove Wilcox. Government attorneys argued that NLRB members should be “removable at will to ensure democratic accountability.” Wilcox was the first Black woman to serve on the five-member board in its 90-year history.