The U.S. Supreme Court rejected a request to uphold President Donald Trump’s firing of Shira Perlmutter, the director of the U.S. Copyright Office.
The court did not explain the reasons behind its June 30 order in Blanche v. Perlmutter, but said the denial of the federal government’s application “is not a ruling on the merits of the legal issues presented in the litigation.” No justices dissented.
The ruling leaves open for now the question of whether the president may remove officials from the Copyright Office, which is housed within the Library of Congress, itself a part of the legislative branch of the federal government. The issue could return to the Supreme Court again at some point in the future….