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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on Wednesday granted two former Justice Department employees\u2019 request to expedite the appeal of their 2025 firings, which the Trump administration has argued were exempt from civil service rules.<\/p>\n

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Megan Jackler and Brandon Jaroch were removed from their positions as immigration judges last year, with Article II of the Constitution cited as the sole justification for their termination. An administrative law judge overturned both employees\u2019 firings, but in March, the Merit Systems Protection Board reversed that decision, in the process relinquishing jurisdiction over cases in which federal agencies cite constitutional authority to justify an adverse personnel action.<\/p>\n

MSPB\u2019s decision, upending decades of precedent, found that inferior officers, like federal immigration judges, may be removed at-will, provided their responsibilities do not exceed \u201climited duties and no policymaking.\u201d That ruling came after the Justice Department\u2019s Office of Legal Counsel issued an opinion arguing that the quasi-judicial body is \u201cobligated\u201d to consider agencies\u2019 constitutional claims during adverse action appeals.<\/p>\n

But attorneys for Jackler and Jaroch, who appealed MSPB\u2019s ruling directly to the Federal Circuit, said the decision misconstrues a description of inferior officers in a Supreme Court case involving removal protections for principal officers for a distinction creating two tiers of inferior officer\u2014some whose responsibilities are limited and for whom removal protections are legal and others whose duties exceed that threshold and may be removed at will.<\/p>\n

The former immigration judges appealed MSPB\u2019s decision directly to the Federal Circuit court and requested that the entire court hear the case, rather than the traditional three-judge panel. Appellate courts rarely grant such requests\u2014the last instance in recent memory was when the same court agreed to hear legal challenges to President Trump\u2019s International Emergency Economic Powers Act tariffs, which the Supreme Court ultimately invalidated earlier this year.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe petition and response were referred to the circuit judges in regular active service,\u201d the court\u2019s order states. \u201cA poll was requested and taken, and the court decided that the petition for review warrants en banc consideration.\u201d<\/p>\n

Since Trump returned to office last year, hundreds of Justice Department workers have been subject to so-called \u201cArticle II firings,\u201d including immigration judges, employees previously assigned to cases investigating the president and prosecutors who worked on January 6 cases. The immigration judges\u2019 appeal has attracted support from federal employee unions, Democratic lawmakers, as well as a professional association representing MSPB workers, who all have filed friend-of-the-court briefs.<\/p>\n

In a statement Wednesday, Nathaniel Zelinsky, an attorney with the Washington Litigation Group representing the fired feds, applauded the court\u2019s ruling.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Federal Circuit\u2019s decision to hear this case en banc indicates how important this appeal is,\u201d he said. \u201cThe government has asserted a constitutional right to neuter the laws that protect our nation\u2019s public servants from abuse and discrimination. That is as legally wrong as it is deeply unjust. We look forward to arguing this matter before the full court of appeals.\u201d<\/p>\n

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