Trump Administration Says It Can Hire, Fire Labor Panel at Will

The Trump administration shot back at a lawsuit over the power of a federal panel that resolves labor disputes between the government and its employees.

The suit, filed last month, claims that President Donald Trump stacked the obscure agency with anti-labor members. It was brought by a union-affiliated group of administrative judges who preside over hundreds of thousands of Social Security disability disputes across the U.S. every year. The judges say the Federal Service Impasses Panel is deciding too many crucial matters essentially unchecked.

The U.S. told a federal judge in a filing on Tuesday that the members of the ...