By John Kruzel

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court postponed on Wednesday a decision on whether to let Donald Trump remove the government’s top copyright official, leaving her in place for now in the latest battle over the Republican president’s targeting of federal officials.

The justices declined to immediately resolve the Justice Department’s request to lift a lower court’s ruling that had blocked Trump’s firing of Shira Perlmutter as the U.S. register of copyrights and U.S. Copyright Office director while her legal challenge to her removal proceeds.

The Supreme Court’s order indicated that it would issue a decision concerning Perlmutter after it hears arguments already scheduled in two other cases involving Trump’s firing of Federal Trade Commission Democratic member Rebecc

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