Judge Rules for Fired NLRB Worker: Trump ‘Not a King’

A federal judge, while reinstating a fired member of the National Labor Relations Board, declared that President Donald Trump is not a king and can’t remove federal officials and civil servants as if he were a monarch.

“An American President is not a king — not even an ‘elected’ one — and his power to remove federal officers and honest civil servants like plaintiff is not absolute,” U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell for the District of Columbia wrote, while restoring the employee, Gwynne Wilcox, to her job, reports ABC News Thursday. 

Wilcox, who said Trump fired her without providing a cause, brought her case in February to challenge her dismissal.

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