(CNN) — The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Monday to allow him to fire a top official at the Library of Congress, despite a lower court ruling that found the official is part the legislative branch and doesn’t report to the White House.

Trump’s dismissal of Shira Perlmutter, director of the US Copyright Office, followed a report she released in May that suggested some copyrighted works used to train generative AI models would likely require licensing – that is, tech companies would have to pay to use that material.

Perlmutter’s lawsuit said President Donald Trump “allegedly disagreed” with that report.

In one sense, the case is the latest in a series of emergency appeals Trump has brought to the Supreme Court as part of his push to remove critics from independent a

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