Biden Firing of Labor Board Lawyer Robb Draws Doubts at 5th Cir.

A government lawyer faced strong questioning about President Joe Biden‘s Inauguration Day termination of the National Labor Relations Board’s top Trump-era lawyer during appellate court oral argument over the president’s authority to fire board general counsels before their terms expire.

No prior NLRB general counsel had been sacked before Biden fired Trump administration NLRB general counsel Peter Robb, Judge Jennifer Walker Elrod of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit said Thursday.

Elrod, who was named to the appeals court by President George W. Bush, also signaled that she was troubled by the prospect of presidents ...