Former HHS Official Sues Biden to Keep Post on Advisory Board

Roger Severino was appointed to an advisory committee just days before former President Donald Trump left office. Now he’s suing President Joe Biden to keep that job.

The former director of the Health and Human Services Department’s civil rights office filed a lawsuit Wednesday after receiving an email from the new administration that asked him to resign from the Council of the Administrative Conference of the United States (ACUS).

ACUS, which Severino received his commission for on Jan. 16, is a permanent advisory agency that makes recommendations on ways to reform administrative procedure. Biden doesn’t have the statutory or constitutional ...