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- First Thing: Supreme court backs Trump’s ability to fire agency chiefs but rules against him on mail-in ballots
The US Supreme Court ruled that presidents can fire agency leaders without cause, overturning 90 years of precedent, but also decided against allowing mail-in ballots arriving after election day to be counted. The court also required privacy protections for law enforcement use of smartphone location data.