"While administrative stays are more common in appellate courts, district courts have recognized their applicability in cases seeking emergency relief—including in this District," U.S. District Senior Judge Amy Berman Jackson wrote in a minute order temporarily reinstating Hampton Dellinger as special counsel of the Office of Special Counsel.

Hampton Dellinger, head of the Office of Special Counsel, sued the Trump administration earlier this month after the president fired him.

A federal appeals court has put an end to the last remnant of special counsel Jack Smith’s criminal prosecutions that once targeted President Donald Trump. The Atlanta-based 11th Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday granted the Justice Department’s bid ...