Freeze on Firing Privacy Board Members Remains in Place for Now

Two Democrats from the US government’s top privacy and civil liberties watchdog remain shielded by a preliminary injunction that froze President Donald Trump‘s bid to fire them after a federal judge on Thursday declined to put his ruling on hold while the government’s appeal proceeds.

The Supreme Court precedent preserving the US Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board jobs is on shaky footing after an unsigned May 22 order from the high court lifted a similar freeze that protected members of the National Labor Relations Board and Merit Systems Protection Board.

But Judge Reggie B. Walton of the US ...