Trump Asks Supreme Court to Remove Block on Mass Firings
'That injunction rests on the indefensible premise that the President needs explicit statutory authorization from Congress to exercise his core Article II authority to superintend the internal personnel decisions of the Executive Branch,' U.S. Solicitor General D. John Sauer said in an emergency application on June 2.
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