The Trump administration failed to “identify any harm related to a specific funding action or actions that they will face without their requested administrative stay,” the appeals court

President Donald Trump has asked the US Supreme Court to allow him to fire the head of an independent ethics agency that protects whistleblower federal employees. He has filed an emergency appeal to the country's highest court to rule on whether he can fire Hampton Dellinger, head of the US Office of Special Counsel.

This article was updated on Feb. 18 at 12:37 p.m. The Trump administration on Sunday asked the Supreme Court to block an order by a federal judge in Washington, D.C., that would require the president