Donald Trump can fire members of two independent agencies, a divided federal appeals court in Washington ruled, boosting the president’s efforts to dramatically reshape the US government.

President Trump fired Gwynne Wilcox from the National Labor Relations Board and Cathy Harris from the Merit Systems Protection Board.

A lower court had blocked him from firing leaders at the National Labor Relations Board and Merit Systems Protection Board, in a case that could go to the Supreme Court.

A federal judge on Friday ordered U.S. President Donald Trump's administration to temporarily pause its efforts to shut down Voice of America, stopping the government from firing 1,300 journalists and other employees at the U.

As losses mount in lower federal courts, President Donald Trump has returned to a tactic that he employed at the Supreme Court with remarkable success in his first term. Three times in the past week,

A federal judge has agreed to block the Trump administration from dismantling the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

A prominent international law firm reached a deal with President Donald Trump on Friday to dedicate at least $100 million in free legal services and to review its hiring practices, averting a punishing executive order like the ones directed at nearly a half-dozen other major legal institutions in recent weeks.

Major law firms are suing the Trump administration over executive orders targeting them. MSNBC’s Melissa Murray reports and is joined by former federal prosecutor Kristy Greenberg and Jameel Jaffer, executive director of Knight First Amendment Institute.

A federal judge agreed Friday to block the Trump administration from dismantling the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, an agency that was targeted for mass firings before the court’s intervention.