Supreme Court sidesteps Trump’s effort to remove watchdog agency head

Supreme Court sidesteps Trump’s effort to remove watchdog agency headThe Supreme Court on Friday left in place for now an order by a federal judge in Washington, D.C., that instructed President Donald Trump to temporarily reinstate the head of an independent federal agency tasked with protecting whistleblowers from retaliation. The justices did not act…

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Justices rule out “commingled funds” theory in Hungarian Holocaust survivors’ compensation suit

Justices rule out “commingled funds” theory in Hungarian Holocaust survivors’ compensation suitA unanimous Supreme Court on Friday threw out a ruling by a federal appeals court that allowed a lawsuit brought by survivors of the Hungarian Holocaust to go forward. The survivors contended that their claims fell within an exception to the general presumption that foreign…

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