The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Monday to allow it to fire Register of Copyrights Shira Perlmutter after a federal appeals court ordered her reinstatement last month.

Solicitor General D. John Sauer petitioned the high court on its emergency docket, arguing that a federal appeals court erred in ruling that the register of copyrights was exercising functions of the legislative branch rather than the executive branch and that, therefore, President Donald Trump had no authority to fire Perlmutter.

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