( April 17, 2025, 2:55 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — One day after ousted members of the National Labor Relations Board and Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) asked the U.S. Supreme Court to deny an application filed by President Donald J. Trump and other federal government officials to overturn a split District of Columbia Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruling vacating a stay of their reinstatements to the boards, arguing the removal decisions were hasty and unprecedented, the federal government in an April 16 reply brief doubled down its stance, stating that Article II of the of the U.S. Constitution “vests the ‘executive Power’—'all of it’—in the President alone” to fire leaders of executive agencies....