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Supreme Court clears way for Trump to fire 2 independent agency leaders over liberal dissents 

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23.05.2025

The Supreme Court cleared the way Thursday for President Trump to fire two Democratic-appointed independent agency leaders, for now, over the dissents of the court’s three liberal justices.

The emergency order lifts a lower decision reinstating the two officials, handing the president a win in his quest to expand control over all aspects of the federal bureaucracy.

But the justices declined the Trump administration’s additional ask to immediately take up the case in full and expedite it so the high court can settle this term whether Trump could fire the two officials.

“That question is........

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