The Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court to approve the removal of Shira Perlmutter , the Register of Copyrights, from her position at the Library of Congress. The request, made on Monday (October 27), follows a lower court's ruling that Perlmutter's role is part of the legislative branch, meaning she does not report to the White House. President Donald Trump dismissed Perlmutter after she released a report in May suggesting that copyrighted works used to train generative AI models might require licensing, a move with which Trump reportedly disagreed.

The case is part of President Trump's broader effort to expand presidential control over federal agencies by removing critics. However, the Perlmutter case introduces a new challenge due to the lower court's findings that

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