Some Democrats argue that what they need for the 2028 presidential election is a southern moderate like Jimmy Carter or Bill Clinton who won election-- or like Al Gore whose win was taken away by the courts.

A federal appeals court panel said Trump could fire Office of Special Counsel head Hampton Dellinger for now while litigation continued, but Dellinger said Wednesday that he’s ending his legal fight.

President Trump has fired heads of offices and agencies tasked, since Watergate, with protecting federal workers and whistleblowers. Scott Pelley reports on what's happening to independent watchdogs.

Hampton Dellinger remains an oddity in this current bleak iteration of the federal government—an uncaptured executive branch official.

A federal appeals court on Wednesday allowed President Donald Trump to temporarily remove the head of an independent watchdog agency who was investigating the administration’s mass firing of probationary federal employees.

The former watchdog for federal workers said Thursday that he intends to drop his bid for the courts to reinstate him after the Trump administration fired him without cause last month, signaling the end to the most prominent fight so far about Trump’s effort to reshape the executive branch.

A judge ruled Trump’s firing of NLRB member Gwynne Wilcox unlawful. The Trump administration appealed, asserting the president’s authority to remove officials.

Hampton Dellinger's decision to end his legal fight comes after a federal appeals court cleared the way for his firing by President Trump.

Special counsel Hampton Dellinger says he is dropping his lawsuit to try to keep his job after President Donald Trump fired him. His decision comes a day after the federal appeals court in Washington temporarily removed him from the position,

Hampton Dellinger challenged his termination last month as head of the Office of Special Counsel by suing several Trump administration officials.