The Supreme Court allowed Shira Perlmutter to continue to serve as register of copyrights for the Library of Congress in an order issued Tuesday, denying a request from the Trump administration to remove her while she fights her firing in court.
The two-sentence decision leaves open the issue of whether Trump can remove officials from within the Library of Congress, which formally works for the legislative branch. The unsigned order, released with other decisions at the close of the term, noted it was “not a ruling on the merits of the legal issues presented in the litigation.”
