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Trump Fires Labor Board Acting General Counsel Jessica Rutter

Feb. 1, 2025, 5:29 PM UTC
Parker Purifoy
Parker Purifoy
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Robert Iafolla
Robert Iafolla
Senior Legal Reporter

President Donald Trump fired acting National Labor Relations Board General Counsel Jessica Rutter, once again disrupting leadership at the agency.

The NLRB confirmed the termination to Bloomberg Law on Saturday. Rutter, a Democrat, was previously deputy general counsel under Jennifer Abruzzo. Trump has yet to announce a replacement to act as lead prosecutor for the NLRB and police the nation’s private-sector labor laws. Nor has he named a general counsel who will require Senate confirmation.

Trump has moved swiftly to freeze independent agencies, firing Biden appointees Abruzzo and NLRB Member Gwynne Wilcox Jan. 27. Wilcox’s termination leaves the board without a quorum, and sets up a legal test of the executive’s powers to remove independent agency officials at will.

To contact the reporters on this story: Parker Purifoy in Washington at ppurifoy@bloombergindustry.com; Robert Iafolla in Washington at riafolla@bloombergindustry.com

To contact the editors responsible for this story: Genevieve Douglas at gdouglas@bloomberglaw.com; Jay-Anne B. Casuga at jcasuga@bloomberglaw.com

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