Appeal of Trump’s Privacy-Board Firings Put on Hold by D.C. Cir.

Oral argument over the Trump administration’s effort to fire two Democratic members of the US Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board is being delayed until the US Supreme Court has ruled in a related case.

The US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit issued an order Wednesday removing the case from the oral argument calendar and holding it in abeyance until the high court’s disposition of Trump v. Slaughter, a lawsuit challenging the president’s authority to fire members of the Federal Trade Commission.

• The former privacy-board commissioners sued in February, claiming their termination was without cause and in violation ...