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The Supreme Court’s conservative majority appears poised to overturn a 90-year-old precedent protecting independent agencies from presidential firings at will.

A ruling for President Trump would allow presidents unrestricted power to remove FTC leaders and potentially reshape decades of bipartisan governance structures.

The court’s three liberal justices warned the decision would grant the president what Justice Elena Kagan called ‘massive, uncontrolled and unchecked power.’

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court’s conservatives sound ready to overrule Congress and give President Trump more power to fire officials at independent agencies and commissions.

The justices heard arguments Mo

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