Federal Employees

On Sunday, March 1st, U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson ruled that President Trump’s firing of Special Counsel Hampton Dellinger, head of the Office of Special Counsel, was illegal.

On February 26, 2025, Judge Amy Jackson of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia heard arguments in a preliminary injunction hearing between attorneys for Hampton Dellinger, Special Counsel of the U.S. Office of Special Counsel (OSC), and...

While Special Counsel Hampton Dellinger continues to challenge President Trump's attempts to fire him, he has been allowed to remain in his post as the head of the Office of Special Counsel (OSC) by a federal judge. On February 24,...

On February 21, the U.S. Supreme Court chose not to weigh in on President Trump's firing of Special Counsel Hampton Dellinger, after a district court  found that the Trump administration violated the law in firing Dellinger without cause and temporarily...

Late on February 12, a federal judge issued a temporary restraining order blocking President Trump’s firing of Special Counsel Hampton Dellinger, who as the head of Office of Special Counsel (OSC) oversees the agency responsible for protecting federal employee whistleblowers...

The system for anti-retaliation protections for federal employees who blow the whistle or speak out about their agency’s conduct is infamously weak, with whistleblowers usually forced to pursue relief through the delay-plagued and presidentially appointed Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB)...

For decades, whistleblower advocates have called on Congress to strengthen whistleblower protections for federal employees. National Whistleblower Center (NWC) is renewing this call and is urging Congress to reintroduce and pass the Congressional Whistleblower Protection Act. “Federal whistleblowers are crucial...

On March 12, a Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) administrative judge ordered the Army Corps of Engineers to issue a letter of “sincere thanks” to whistleblower Dr. Tommie (Toni) Savage. Dr. Savage’s federal employee whistleblower case has stretched on for...

Staffers at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) mishandled a complaint from four whistleblowers, according to a September 30 article from The Intercept. Whistleblower attorney Stephen M. Kohn, who has extensive experience in representing EPA whistleblowers, says the agency has...

Robert Ledogar was featured on Whistleblower Network News in November of 2020 as a Whistleblower of the Week. WNN recently caught up with Ledogar to see how he is doing and if there have been any developments in his case...