The Supreme Court has denied an emergency appeal by President Donald Trump seeking to immediately fire Office of Special Counsel chief Hampton Dellinger.

The justices ruled last week that the president could not, for now, remove a government lawyer who leads the watchdog agency that protects whistle-blowers.

Just over a month into his second term, President Donald Trump is moving with haste to push legal battles over his executive actions to the Supreme Court, signaling an aggressive strategy to expand presidential power in the face of resistance from lower courts.

Refugee aid groups said in a federal court filing Thursday that President Donald Trump’s administration appears to be trying to circumvent a ruling this week that blocked his efforts to suspend the nation’s refugee admissions program.

President Donald Trump's administration asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday to put on hold a federal judge's order requiring the government to pay foreign aid funds to contractors and grant recipients for past work.

The attorney general’s office filed an appeal late Tuesday after U.S. District Judge Amir Ali ordered the administration to supply those funds by 11:59 p.m. on Wednesday.