After all, the Supreme Court is stacked with six Republican appointees, including three selected by Trump in his first term. The

President Donald Trump’s pick for the country’s top legal representative at the Supreme Court declined to rule out ignoring court orders, explaining that there could be “extreme cases.” At his hearing before the Senate on Wednesday,

The Trump administration took the case to the Supreme Court after an appeals court prevented the president from firing Hampton Dellinger, the head of the Office of Special Counsel.

The unsigned order keeping on job the head of the federal agency that protects government whistleblowers is the court’s first word on President Donald Trump’s agenda.

The Supreme Court, which has a 6-3 conservative majority, weighs in on a case involving the new Trump administration for the first time.