“The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected an effort by President Donald Trump to fire a top official at the Library of Congress for now, a move that will allow her to remain in her post while her case is reviewed by lower courts in light of the court’s blockbuster decisions on presidential power earlier this week,” CNN reports.

“The move means that Shira Perlmutter will remain the director of the US Copyright Office despite a long-pending request from Trump to remove her immediately.”

Duncan Hosie: “In recent days, the Supreme Court’s conservatives have issued one ambitious opinion after another. They expanded President Trump’s powers to fire independent regulators, rescind deportation protections, and turn away asylum seekers; weakened state authority to enact gun control; narrowed the ability of religious minorities to vindicate their free-exercise rights; eroded the due-process rights of green-card holders; and handed big wins to multinational oil and tech companies.”

“Yet anyone not paying close attention would likely miss the Court’s radicalism. The justices’ language in most cases obscured their opinions’ effects; the word decadent fits. Using invocations of precedent to disguise rather than illuminate, the conservative justices pretend to preserve what they are overturning.”

“This duality—sweeping remaking of law presented as continuity—has become a hallmark of the Roberts Court.”

“The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld a broad conception of birthright citizenship, rejecting President Donald Trump’s executive order declaring that children born to people who are in the United States illegally or temporarily are not American citizens,” the AP reports.

“The justices relied on a long-settled understanding of the 14th Amendment, adopted after the Civil War, and more recent federal laws in ruling that anyone born in the country, with very limited exceptions, is a citizen.”

Wall Street Journal: “The decision rebuffs Trump’s bid to upend the deep-rooted understanding that virtually everyone born on American soil is automatically a U.S. citizen.”

“The Supreme Court on Tuesday erased limits on how much political parties can spend in coordination with candidates for Congress and president, striking down a federal election law that is more than 50 years old,” the AP reports.

“The limits on party spending stem from a desire to prevent large donors from skirting caps on individual contributions to a candidate by directing unlimited sums to the party, with the understanding that the money will be spent on behalf of the candidate.”

“The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld two state laws barring the participation of transgender female athletes from girls’ and women’s sports teams. The court’s ruling deals with laws from West Virginia and Idaho but has implications for the 25 other states with similar restrictions, and for athletes who compete in school and collegiate sports nationwide,” the New York Times reports.

“The Trump administration, which backed the state bans, has targeted the participation of transgender athletes in sports amid a national pushback against expanding rights for transgender people.”