President Donald Trump has relocated to fire Democratic members of two independent federal commissions, a remarkable break from decades of legal precedent that promises to hand Republicans manage over boards that manage swaths of U.S. workers, employers and labor unions.

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

All three stated they are exploring their legal choices against the administration - cases that legal scholars say might reach as far as the Supreme Court.

Trump also got rid of the EEOC’s general counsel, Karla Gilbride, who manage civil actions against companies on a range of problems, 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 various actions underway at both agencies, consisting of versus billionaire Elon Musk’s electrical cars and truck company, Tesla.

“These were far-left appointees with extreme records of upending enduring labor law, and they have no location as senior appointees in the Trump administration, which was provided a mandate by the American people to undo the radical policies they produced,” a White House official stated, speaking on the condition of privacy under ground rules set by the administration.

In statements issued Tuesday, Burrows and Samuels both called their eliminations “extraordinary.”

“Removing me from my position before the expiration of my Congressionally directed term is unprecedented, breaches the law, and represents a fundamental misunderstanding of the nature of the EEOC as an independent company - one that is not managed by a single Cabinet secretary but operates as a multimember body whose varying views are baked into the Commission’s style,” Samuels wrote.

In dismissing her, she included, the White House critiqued her views on sex discrimination, diversity, equity and addition (DEI) programs, and employment availability issues. She stated the criticism misunderstood “the standard concepts of equal work chance.”

Burrows composed that her removal “will weaken the efforts of this independent agency to do the essential work of safeguarding employees from discrimination, supporting employers’ compliance efforts, and expanding public awareness and understanding of federal work laws.”

Wilcox, the NLRB member, wrote in a declaration that she will pursue “all legal avenues to challenge my elimination, which breaks long-standing Supreme Court precedent.”

The removal of general counsels is not without precedent: President Joe Biden fired Trump-appointed general counsels at the EEOC and NLRB upon going into workplace in 2021. Yet dismissing members of independent commissions represents a significant break from Supreme Court precedent dating to 1935, which holds that the president can not get rid of members of independent companies such as the EEOC except in cases of disregard of duty, malfeasance or ineffectiveness.

Trump’s actions leave both five-member boards without enough members to carry out organization. The boards now have just 2 members