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BREAKING: Sotomayor Tears Into Supreme Court Over "King" Powers Given to TrumpJustice Sonia Sotomayor delivered a blistering dissent Monday after the Supreme Court's conservative majority handed Trump the power to fire the heads of independent federal agencies at will, a move she warned hands him authority "unknown even to the English Crown."The 6-3 ruling wiped out a 91-year-old precedent that protected agency leaders overseeing Wall Street, workplace safety, and the airwaves from political firing squads.Sotomayor wasn't having it.Joined by Justices Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson, she wrote that the majority had elevated Trump above the other branches of government, turning a duty to enforce the law into "a license to act in defiance of those very laws."She didn't stop there. Sotomayor accused her colleagues of ignoring two centuries of legal wisdom, writing that the majority believes it knows better than Hamilton, Holmes, Brandeis, and Frankfurter combined.Her closing line is already everywhere: "The one thing that does appear to be clear going forward is that chaos will follow."In the same term, the Court handed down a separate ruling preserving the Federal Reserve's independence, for now, a sign the fight over presidential power is far from settled.Sotomayor's dissent is being read as one of the sharpest rebukes of the Trump era, a reminder that even with the Court stacked against her, she's not backing down from saying exactly what's happening.