Former special counsel Hampton Dellinger said he was planning to pursue legal action to restore all fired probationary workers back to their posts before a court failed to keep him in his role.

Dellinger was fired by President Trump in February, but a lower court returned him to his job as he continued with legal arguments that he was entitled to remain in his job for the entirety of his five-year term.

That ended with an appeals court ruling barring him from staying on the job as the case continued, prompting Dellinger to end his suit.

“I knew that as soon as I was out the independence of........

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