Ex-PCLOB Members Sue Trump Over Firings
Recently fired Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board members Travis LeBlanc and Ed Felten should be reinstated because President Donald Trump removed them without “good cause,” attorneys argued in a lawsuit filed Monday.
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Lawyers for LeBlanc and Felten filed a lawsuit with the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (docket 1:25-cv-00542). They named Trump, the PCLOB, PCLOB board member Beth Williams, PCLOB Executive Director Jenny Fitzpatrick and White House Deputy Director of Presidential Personnel Trent Morse as defendants.
Text of the 9/11 Commission Act, the statute that established PCLOB, “bars removal of PCLOB members without good cause,” the filing states (see 2502210050). It also noted the statute that board members are Senate-confirmed to serve a “fixed term” of six years and that LeBlanc and Felten were removed prematurely. “Plaintiffs have a clear right to remain in office until the expiration of their tenure or until lawfully removed for good cause,” the filing says.