The Department of Justice argued on behalf of the Trump administration that the law protecting Wilcox from at-will firing was unconstitutional. It said the National Labor Relations Board held executive authority that was borrowed from the president.

"The proper remedy for an (allegedly) unlawful termination of a federal officer as here is backpay," the department wrote. "It is not commandeering an executive agency and forcing the President to work alongside a subordinate in whom he has no trust."

Wow, what a horrible argument.