In an order released late Saturday night, a panel of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals voted, 2-1, not to disturb a temporary restraining order a lower court judge issued preventing Trump from moving forward with the removal of Office of Special Counsel chief Hampton Dellinger, an appointee of President Joe Biden.

President Donald Trump is seeking the Supreme Court's intervention to determine whether he has the authority to dismiss the head of an agency.

The Trump administration will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a lower court ruling that ordered a government ethics watchdog reinstated to his post after he was fired by the president.

Lower courts blocked the dismissal, citing a federal law that requires misconduct in order to remove the Office of Special Counsel’s head before his term ends.