Former TFG Officials Hit Roadblock in Effort to Force Way Back onto Naval Academy Board
An effort to get back onto the U.S. Naval Academy Board of Visitors by former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer and ex-Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought has hit a roadblock after a federal judge blocked the two men's request for immediate reinstatement.
Spicer and Vought filed a lawsuit several weeks after the Biden administration removed them from the academy's board as part of a larger purge of 18 officials from boards at all the Defense Department service academies. Many of those officials were close allies of former President Donald Trump, and had been added to the boards in the last days of his administration.
Spicer and Vought argued in their complaint that the Biden administration did not have the legal authority to remove them, and they asked for a restraining order blocking their ousting.
"The statute governing the Board provides for staggered three-year terms," the lawsuit said, "and it makes no provision or allowance for at-will presidential removal based on political affiliation or otherwise."
However, in a Dec. 4 ruling, the judge denied their request for such an order, citing the fact that the men failed to show that there is anything in the law that stops a president from firing them.
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