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Chief Justice John G. Roberts has argued that the president has the constitutional power to control federal agencies.

That view stands in conflict with what the court has said for more than a century.

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court said Monday it will decide on reversing a 90-year precedent that has protected independent agencies from direct control by the president.

The court’s conservative majority has already upheld President Trump’s firing of Democratic appointees at the National Labor Relations Board and Merit Systems Protection Board. And in a separate order on Monday , it upheld Trump’s removal of a Democratic appointee at the Federal Trade Commission.

Those orders sig

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