Supreme Court won't let Trump boot top copyright official, for now [View all]
Source: Courthouse News Service
November 26, 2025
WASHINGTON (CN) — The Supreme Court will allow the nation’s top copyright official to retain her post for now, deferring President Donald Trump’s request on Wednesday to exert control over the office that advises Congress on issues like artificial intelligence. In a short order, the high court indicated that it wouldn’t rule on Trump’s pending emergency appeal to nix the official’s reinstatement until hearing arguments on other executive branch terminations in December and January.
Justice Clarence Thomas, a George H.W. Bush appointee, indicated that he would have granted Trump’s request.
Shira Perlmutter was reinstated as the register of copyrights by a lower court after she was fired, following a report from the U.S. Copyright Office said some uses of copyrighted works in generative AI training could run afoul of fair use laws. Trump filed an emergency application in October seeking Perlmutter’s removal, saying the justices had previously recognized that allowing removed officers to exercise executive power over the president’s objection would result in irreparable harm.
Nearly half a dozen of Trump’s emergency appeals have concerned terminating government officials he sees as opposing his agenda, including independent labor and employment dispute board members, product safety and federal trade commissioners, a government watchdog and a federal reserve governor.
Read more: https://courthousenews.com/supreme-court-wont-let-trump-boot-top-copyright-official-for-now/
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