Hampton Dellinger's termination at the Office of Special Counsel comes as Trump's Republican administration is engaged in an overhaul of the federal government, testing the limits of well-established civil service protections.

A federal judge late Wednesday agreed to a temporary restraining order blocking President Trump from firing the head of the Office of the Special Counsel (OSC), keeping a key protector of

The head of the federal agency that seeks to protect whistleblowers has filed a lawsuit saying he was illegally fired by President Donald Trump.