A federal appeals court on Friday let President Donald Trump remove for now the chair of a critical “merit board” that reviews federal firings, and a member of the National Labor Relations Board, handing him a major win in his efforts to control independent federal agencies and potentially hobbling both agencies by depriving them of a quorum.

The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected Trump's assertion that judges don't have the power to review his use of the 1798 Alien Enemies Act to deport alleged members of a Venezuelan gang. The three-panel court ruled that a judge's ban temporarily barring such deportations could remain in place.

A federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., on Friday overturned district court rulings that had ordered the reinstatement of fired adjudicatory entity members.

President Donald Trump may not resume summary deportations of people he deems to be part of a Venezuelan gang, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday. The 2-1 ruling by a panel of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals is another blow to Trump’s effort to deploy wartime powers to quickly deport hundreds of people he claims are members of the gang,

President Donald Trump’s administration on Friday asked the Supreme Court to wade into the fraught legal battle over enforcing the Alien Enemies Act, the wartime authority he used to rapidly deport alleged members of a Venezuelan gang.

An appeals court has allowed the Trump administration to stop approving new refugees for entry into the U.S. as a lawsuit plays out over the president’s executive order halting the nation’s refugee admissions system.

President Donald Trump is allowed to fire two board members from independent federal agencies after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit voted two to one to remove restrictions on the president’s ability to do so.

A conservative federal appeals judge who President Donald Trump considered a potential candidate for a U.S. Supreme Court nomination during his first term said impeaching judges was not the way to address court rulings with which parties disagreed.