The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Monday to allow the removal of Shira Perlmutter as register of copyrights at the Library of Congress while a legal challenge to her firing works its way through the courts.
President Donald Trump fired Perlmutter in May, after he fired Carla Hayden as librarian of Congress in a push to assert control over the legislative branch agency. But an appeals court reinstated Perlmutter to her role in an opinion last month, which noted she works for Congress and should not be considered the same as executive officials whom Trump can remove at will.
The Trump administration, which has purged dozens of officials and board members across the government, argued in Monday’s application that the Supreme Court should reverse that ruling because officials at the Library of Congress should be removable at will by the president.
