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From Fox News: A federal judge blocked President Donald Trump’s administration from firing two Democratic members of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board on Wednesday.
Trump fired all three Democratic members of the five-person board in February, resulting in two of them filing a lawsuit. U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton found that allowing unilateral firings would prevent the board from carrying out its purpose.
Walton wrote that allowing at-will removals would make the board “beholden to the very authority it is supposed to oversee on behalf of Congress and the American people.”
The oversight board was initially created by Congress to ensure that federal counterterrorism policies were in line with privacy and civil liberties law.
The two Democrats who filed the lawsuit are Travis LeBlanc and Edward Felten.
The third Democrat fired from board only had two days left in her term, and did not join the lawsuit.
Judge Reggie Walton, 76, was nominated by former president George W. Bush in September 2001.
We at @OTI welcome the news that U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton has invalidated @POTUS’s firing of @PCLOB_GOV’s Travis LeBlanc & Edward Felten, ordering their reinstatement.
A functioning PCLOB is crucial to U.S. democracy. We hope it can soon resume its vital oversight role. https://t.co/muD7Bm4m11
— Open Tech Institute (@OTI) May 22, 2025
The far-left group, “Occupy Democrats,” is celebrating the judge’s ruling.
BREAKING: A federal judge slams Donald Trump with an embarrassing defeat by ruling that he illegally fired two Democrats on the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board.
And it gets even better…
U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton ruled that the terminations are now rendered… pic.twitter.com/A82sccfmVr
— Occupy Democrats (@OccupyDemocrats) May 21, 2025
Federal judge blocks the Trump Administration from firing two Democrat members of Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board. Trump fired three out of five of them back in February, but two of them filed lawsuits.https://t.co/krcSyHbnDR
— NC GOP District 11 (@NCGOPDistrict11) May 22, 2025
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