U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson ruled on Saturday that Office of Special Counsel head Hampton Dellinger can remain in his role after President Donald Trump tried to terminate him without clear cause.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The head of a federal watchdog agency must remain in his job, a judge in Washington ruled on Saturday, saying President Donald Trump's bid to remove the special counsel was unlawful.

A U.S. judge on Saturday declared President Donald Trump's firing of the head of a federal watchdog agency illegal in an early test of the scope of presidential power likely to be decided at the U.S.