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By MARK SHERMAN<\/p>\n

WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 The Supreme Court on Monday dramatically expanded presidential power, upholding President Donald Trump\u2019s firings of the heads of independent federal agencies with one important exception, the Federal Reserve.<\/p>\n

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The justices allowed Fed governor Lisa Cook to stay in her job while she fights the Republican president\u2019s effort to fire her over allegations of mortgage fraud, which she has denied. <\/p>\n

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But other than at the nation\u2019s central bank, with its role of setting interest rates, the court held that presidents have free rein to fire agency heads at will, despite federal laws that require a cause for such dismissals and a 91-year-old decision that had limited executive authority. That decision, Humphrey\u2019s Executor, was overturned.<\/p>\n

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