A federal judge in Texas gave a major win to corporate employers seeking to disable or destroy the National Labor Relations Board Tuesday. This ruling came in a case brought by the tech company Findhelp, which mirrors other cases brought by companies like SpaceX and Trader Joe’s that are currently moving through the courts.

Judge Mark Pittman, who was appointed to the federal bench for Northern District of Texas by Donald Trump, is overseeing a case brought by Findhelp in which the company effectively argues that the NLRB is unconstitutional.

In this case, and others like it, employers are claiming that the employment protections afforded to NLRB judges are unconstitutional because such judges cannot be removed at will either by the agency........

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