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A dramatic Monday at the Supreme Court delivered a mixed bag of legal outcomes for Donald Trump, highlighting shifting alliances among the justices.

The former president celebrated a monumental expansion of executive authority as the conservative majority dismantled a 90-year-old precedent, granting presidents sweeping power to remove and replace regulators across key independent agencies. Trump hailed the ruling on Truth Social as a necessary boost to presidential authority.

However, the court firmly checked his influence on other fronts. In a 5-4 decision, Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Brett Kavanaugh joined the three liberal justices to block Trump's bid to remove Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook, with Roberts warning of "calamities" if the executive branch controlled the central bank.

Additionally, Roberts and Justice Amy Coney Barrett sided with the liberals to reject Trump's challenge against late-arriving mail-in ballots. The justices also quietly declined to hear his appeal in E. Jean Carroll's $5m defamation case, finalizing that penalty.

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00:00The Supreme Court just affirmed your right to fire the heads of independent agencies.
00:03Should we expect more firings as a result of this ruling?
00:07I don't think so. It gives me the right, and not me, it gives a president the right to do
00:11what the president should have, the right to do.
00:13And it's very interesting, it's a big ruling, it's been going on for almost 100 years they've been working on
00:20this.
00:20And, you know, that it comes down at my term is a very great honor.
00:24But it bestows additional powers, or maybe the same power on the president.
00:28The president has the right to do this, and that has to do with a lot of agencies all throughout
00:33the system.
00:35So it's considered, you know, the biggest of the group.
00:38And I can understand that this has been going on for almost 100 years they've been waiting for this decision.

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