First Thing: Supreme court hands Trump power to fire agency chiefs but rules against him on mail-in ballots

Decision overturns decades of precedent curbing executive power. Plus how one man survived eight days lost in the Pacific Good morning. Yesterday the US supreme court handed Donald Trump – and all future presidents – the power to fire leaders of independent agencies or commissions, overturning 90 years of court precedent curbing executive power.While Trump celebrated the ruling on Truth Social as a “big win”, labor advocates, unions, and consumer advocacy groups criticized the decision on the case, Trump v Slaughter, and warned of the long-term impact on democracy in the US. Rebecca Slaughter, the federal trade commissioner fired last