We've got a startling and breaking news story to start this week. A big loss for the Trump

administration. The full panel of the Court of Appeals for D.C. has ruled against the Trump

administration seven to four. The four judges, three of them being Trump appointees, I'll talk about

that next. But the seven majority found that both Gwen Wilcox and Kathy Harris need to be

immediately reinstated into their positions. At one, the National Labor Relations Board,

the other at the Merit Protection Service Board, because they were unconstitutionally and illegally

fired by Donald Trump because he says he claims he was exercising his Article 2 power,

but these are bipartisan, congressionally created bodies,

National Labor Relations Board and Service Protection Board,

to protect workers and federal workers.

And he's not allowed to do that under a long line of cases going back 90 years called

Humphreys executor. That case is still good law, is still what the Supreme Court relies on,

and recently reaffirmed it in 2020 in a case called Sillia Law. That's what the majority says.

I'm going to break it down for you now

about what happens next. Here's how we got here. These came up as individual cases. They were

consolidated for appeal. The case of Gwen Wilcox before Amy Berman Jackson, the case of Kathy Harris

in front of Raul Contreras, two judges at the

trial court level in D.C. They ruled based on the same case law. It was a very similar order.

Based on this law, I just told you about Humphreys executor, which says that if Congress creates

a body and it doesn't exert too much executive power and has independent functionality,

and they've created it a bipartisan way for a purpose, the executive branch cannot fire any of the

people on there unless it's for cause, unless it's for malfeasance or neglect or wrongful conduct.

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