{"id":15044,"date":"2025-10-31T00:20:42","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T00:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-administration-makes-emergency-appeal-to-supreme-court-to-fire-head-of-the-us-copyright-office\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T00:20:42","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T00:20:42","slug":"trump-administration-makes-emergency-appeal-to-supreme-court-to-fire-head-of-the-us-copyright-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-administration-makes-emergency-appeal-to-supreme-court-to-fire-head-of-the-us-copyright-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Administration Makes Emergency Appeal To Supreme Court To Fire Head Of The US Copyright Office"},"content":{"rendered":"
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration on Monday asked the Supreme Court<\/a><\/span> to allow it to fire the director of the U.S. Copyright Office.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

The administration’s newest emergency appeal to the high court was filed a month and a half after a federal appeals court in Washington held that the official<\/a><\/span>Shira Perlmutter, could not be unilaterally fired. <\/p>\n

Nearly four weeks ago, the full U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit refused to reconsider that ruling.<\/p>\n

The case is the latest that relates to Trump’s authority to install his own people at the head of federal agencies. The Supreme Court has largely allowed Trump to fire officials, even as court challenges proceed.<\/p>\n

But this case concerns an office that is within the Library of Congress<\/a><\/span>. Perlmutter is the register of copyrights and also advises Congress on copyright issues. <\/p>\n

Solicitor General D. John Sauer wrote in his filing Monday that despite the ties to Congress, the register “wields executive power” in regulating copyrights.<\/p>\n

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Shira Perlmutter, Register of Copyrights and Director of the U.S. Copyright Office, testifies during a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Intellectual Property oversight hearing of the United States Copyright Office, Nov. 13, 2024, on Capitol Hill, in Washington. (AP Photo\/Mariam Zuhaib)<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/bsp-read-more><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n