The Trump administration fired Hampton Dellinger, head of the Office of Special Counsel, who sued to overturn the decision.

The Supreme Court has temporarily kept on the job the head of the federal agency that protects government whistleblowers.

The court’s order indicated that it may return to the issue as soon as next week, when a trial judge’s temporary restraining order is set to expire.

The Supreme Court stiffed President Trump in his administration’s first high court appeal by punting Friday on a request to greenlight the firing of the head of a whistleblower protection office.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Friday that Special Counsel Hampton Dellinger of the U.S. Office of Special Counsel will be

A Supreme Court decision on the first case to reach it concerning federal firings pushed through by Trump’s administration smacks of a “compromise,” an analyst wrote Saturday. And it threatens to worsen clashes between the president’s administration and the courts.