'Unprecedented': Trump's firing of independent credit union officials 'patently unlawful,' suit says
Source: Law & Crime
Apr 28th, 2025, 2:13 pm
The Trump administration is facing yet another lawsuit — this one from two recently fired Senate-confirmed board members of an independent agency created by Congress to oversee about $2.3 trillion in federal credit unions and protects the accounts of more than 142 million Americans.
The complaint, filed Monday in the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., claims that President Donald Trump terminated Todd M. Harper and Tanya F. Otsuka “without explanation and without any cause” while they were “in the middle of their fixed terms” with the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA).
The firings are part of Trump’s push to bring otherwise independent federal agencies under the control of president by ousting members who were appointed by Democratic presidents. A consolidated case challenging the removals of members at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) has already been filed with the U.S. Supreme Court.
According to the filing, no president has ever removed a member of the NCUA’s board prior to their term expiring since the agency’s current leadership framework was created in 1978.
Read more: https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/unprecedented-trumps-firing-of-independent-credit-union-officials-patently-unlawful-suit-says/
Link to COMPLAINT (PDF viewer) - https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25920644-ncua/
Link to COMPLAINT (PDF) - https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25920644/ncua.pdf
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