Justice Sonia Sotomayor grilled Solicitor General D. John Sauer on Monday over his argument that the president should be permitted to fire independent agency heads without cause, claiming such a ruling would be a radical change of the government’s current structure.

The Supreme Court heard arguments in Trump v. Slaughter on Monday, weighing whether President Donald Trump may fire Democrat-appointed Rebecca Slaughter from the Federal Trade Commission without cause, possibly expanding the president’s firing power over independent agency heads.

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