The Justice Department doubled down on its demand that the Supreme Court step in to greenlight President Trump’s firing of a government whistleblower office head, warning in a Wednesday letter that he is still “wielding executive power.”

The high court last week punted on the emergency motion to immediately terminate U.S. Special Counsel Hampton Dellinger, keeping him in his post in what has become the first major test of the new administration’s effort to consolidate control over federal independent agencies.

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