The National Labor Relations Board rejected a challenge to the authority of its general counsel, saying that President Joe Biden lawfully removed the agency’s top lawyer from the Trump era.
The U.S. Supreme Court eliminated any doubt that Biden had the power to fire Peter Robb in its June decision in Collins v. Yellen, a divided NLRB said Thursday. Biden went on to nominate Jennifer Abruzzo for the agency’s general counsel role and she subsequently won Senate confirmation, the board noted.
The California-based nursing facility that contested Abruzzo’s authority “offers no legal theory suggesting that a Senate-confirmed, Presidentially-appointed ...
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