The Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court to allow the president to remove the government’s top copyright official after a lower court allowed her to remain in her post that is part of the Library of Congress.

President Donald Trump ordered the removal in May of Shira Perlmutter, the register of copyrights, along with the librarian of Congress, Carla Hayden, who did not challenge her dismissal.

The Supreme Court’s conservative majority has repeatedly allowed Trump to fire the leaders of independent agencies even as they fight their dismissals in court, allowing him to seize greater control of the federal bureaucracy.

The administration made the request after a divided panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit sided with Perlmutter, the head of the U.S. Copyright O

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