The Supreme Court has temporarily kept on the job the head of the federal agency that protects government whistleblowers.

The court’s conservative majority may be receptive to the argument that presidents have unlimited power to remove leaders of independent agencies.

The Supreme Court placed the emergency application in "abeyance," until the temporary reinstallment of Hampton Dellinger as the leader of the Office of Special Counsel expires next Wednesday.

Just over a month into his second term, President Donald Trump is moving with haste to push legal battles over his executive actions to the Supreme Court, signaling an aggressive strategy to expand presidential power in the face of resistance from lower courts.

The Trump administration complained to the Supreme Court that one of the people it’s trying to fire, special counsel Hampton Dellinger, is positioning himself to block firings of other employees.