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Presidential Power Gets Tested Before Supreme Court After Long Conservative Project to Shrink Agencies

President Trump has repeatedly ousted leaders of independent agencies despite federal laws meant to shield those regulators from politics.

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Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and other conservatives on the Supreme Court have embraced the so-called unitary executive theory, which holds that the Constitution vests all executive power in the president and that he must be able to control everything the executive branch does.

Judge Stalls Justice Dept. Effort to Seek New Comey Indictment

The judge’s decision prevented the government until at least next Friday from having access to much of the evidence it used to secure its original indictment against Mr. Comey.

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A federal judge temporarily blocked the Justice Department from using evidence in its efforts to seek a new indictment against James B. Comey, the former F.B.I. director.
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