One year ago, the Supreme Court in an interim docket decision cleared the way for President Donald Trump to remove FTC Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter from office while her challenge to her firing continued and announced that it would hear argument on the president’s ability to fire the heads of certain independent agencies without cause. In June, the court, by a vote of 6-3, ruled that the president had the power to do so.
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At the Court
The Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court to clear the way for it to use the Department of Homeland Security’s Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements database to identify noncitizens on state voter rolls. The dispute is now fully briefed, and the court’s decision could come at any time.
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Next Monday, the justices will gather at the “long conference” to consider the petitions for review that built up during their summer recess.
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