Hampton Dellinger, who was the head of the Office of Special Counsel until a court ruling Wednesday, said in a statement he would drop his case after facing the “long” odds to be reinstated by ...

Former Special Counsel Hampton Dellinger may have dropped his lawsuit challenging his removal by President Trump, but that did not stop the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit from issuing ...

A federal appeals court on Wednesday allowed President Donald Trump to remove Hampton Dellinger as head of the Office of Special Counsel for now, in one of the most prominent legal challenges over ...

Hampton Dellinger was appointed to protect whistleblowers in the federal government, people exposing waste, fraud, abuse and dangers to the public. "We work with whistleblowers in the federal ...

Special counsel Hampton Dellinger faced President Trump head-on and lost, resigning his post on Thursday rather than fighting his firing from the outside. His departure marks a major legal victory ...

Last night, Judge Amy Berman Jackson held that President Trump's removal of Hampton Dellinger as the Special Counsel of the Office of Special Counsel was unlawful. [Note, this involves a specific ...

U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson sided with Hampton Dellinger, who leads the Office of Special Counsel, in a legal battle over the president's authority to oust the head of the independent ...

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U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson sided with Hampton Dellinger, who leads the Office of Special Counsel, in a legal battle over the president's authority to oust the head of the independent ...

Special counsel Hampton Dellinger’s announcement comes one day after a federal appeals court panel greenlighted Dellinger’s termination until they resolve the case, an indication that the ...

The decision was the last in a back-and-forth legal saga that started when President Donald Trump attempted on Feb. 7 to fire Hampton Dellinger, the special counsel, whose job included prosecuting ...