President Donald Trump has actually moved to fire Democratic members of two independent federal commissions, a remarkable break from years of legal precedent that assures to hand Republicans control over boards that oversee swaths of U.S. employees, employers and labor employment unions.

On Monday night, he dismissed two of the 3 Democrats on the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission - Jocelyn Samuels and Charlotte Burrows, formerly the chair, the White House validated Tuesday. He likewise fired the chair of the National Labor Relations Board, Gwynne Wilcox, a Democrat, an NLRB representative verified Tuesday.

All 3 stated they are exploring their legal choices versus the administration - cases that legal scholars state could reach as far as the Supreme Court.

Trump also removed the EEOC’s basic counsel, Karla Gilbride, who oversaw civil actions versus companies on a variety of issues, including discrimination claims from LGBTQ+ and pregnant employees. And he ended Jennifer Abruzzo, the NLRB’s general counsel. Their departures throw into concern the status of numerous actions underway at both firms, including against billionaire Elon Musk’s electric vehicle business, Tesla.

“These were far-left appointees with extreme records of upending long-standing labor law, and they have no place as senior appointees in the Trump administration, which was offered a mandate by the American individuals to undo the radical policies they created,” a White House authorities stated, speaking on the condition of anonymity under ground rules set by the administration.

In statements provided Tuesday, Burrows and Samuels both called their removals “extraordinary.”

“Removing me from my position before the expiration of my Congressionally directed term is unmatched, breaches the law, and represents an essential misunderstanding of the nature of the EEOC as an independent agency - one that is not controlled by a single Cabinet secretary however operates as a multimember body whose differing views are baked into the Commission’s design,” Samuels composed.

In dismissing her, she included, employment the White House critiqued her views on sex discrimination, employment diversity, equity and addition (DEI) programs, and employment accessibility problems. She said the criticism misunderstood “the standard concepts of equivalent employment chance.”

Burrows composed that her elimination “will undermine the efforts of this independent firm to do the important work of protecting staff members from discrimination, supporting companies’ compliance efforts, and broadening public awareness and understanding of federal work laws.”

Wilcox, the NLRB member, composed in a that she will pursue “all legal avenues to challenge my elimination, which breaks enduring Supreme Court precedent.”

The elimination of basic counsels is not without precedent: President Joe Biden fired Trump-appointed general counsels at the EEOC and NLRB upon going into office in 2021. Yet dismissing members of independent commissions represents a dramatic break from Supreme Court precedent dating to 1935, which holds that the president can not eliminate members of independent companies such as the EEOC except in cases of neglect of responsibility, malfeasance or inadequacy.

Trump’s actions leave both five-member boards without enough members to conduct company. The boards now have only two members