The ruling ‌did not address the legal merits of the #speech restraint, which was enacted during Trump's first term.

The #Trump admin had appealed to #SCOTUS after a lower court ordered findings on whether his firings of the heads of agencies overseeing federal worker complaints had stripped these agencies of the #independence from White House control that #Congress had intended. Such a finding, the lower ​court said, might entitle the #immigration judges to their day in court.

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