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By Caitlin Tremblay

U.S. Supreme Court rejects Trump's unprecedented bid to fire Fed's Cook

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The U.S. Supreme Court refused on Monday to let Donald Trump fire Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook as it stood firm to preserve the central bank's cherished independence against an unprecedented challenge by the Republican president. Read the opinion here.

However, the justices backed President Trump's firing of a Democratic member of the Federal Trade Commission, expanding the president's power over a regulatory agency that had long been insulated from White House control. Read that opinion here.

The court releases two other opinions this morning: It upheld grace periods for mail-in ballots (read the opinion here) and ordered a lower court to reconsider a "geofence" warrant case (read the opinion here).

The court also issued orders this morning. Here are the highlights.

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