President Donald Trump has faced legal roadblocks in his bids to fire independent agency heads, but following wins on the Supreme Court’s emergency docket, the president’s firing power faces its largest test before the high court’s merits docket on Monday.

The Supreme Court will hear arguments in Trump v. Slaughter on Monday morning, after elevating the emergency docket case to the merits docket in September. The case marked the third time the issue of presidential firings, without cause, of independent agency heads arrived at the emergency docket. The high court allowed the president to fire officials in the interim both of the previous times.

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