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In Washington, I'm Ryland Barton. A federal vaccine advisory committee has voted to end a long standing recommendation that all babies get the hepatitis B vaccine on the day they're born. It's a reversal of a decades old policy babies be vaccinated against the liver infection right after birth. The shots are widely considered to be a public health success for preventing thousands of illnesses, but US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr's committee voted to recommend the birth dose only for babies whose mothers test positive for hepatitis. The D.C. circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that the president does have the constitutional power to fire members of two independent agencies at will despite federal laws to the contrary. As NPR's Andrea Hsu reports, the ruling comes as the Supreme Court prepares to tackle the same topic.
Andrea Hsu (1:05)
In a 2 to 1 decision, the court ruled that President Trump's firings of national Labor Relations Board member Gwen Wilcox and Merit Systems Protection Board member Kathy Harris were lawful despite federal laws that state they can only be fired for cause. The appeals court found that a 1935 Supreme Court decision limiting the president's power to remove officers at multi member independent agencies like theirs doesn't apply here because both agencies wield substantial executive power. The On Monday, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in a similar case. The Trump administration has asked the court to strike down that 1935 precedent and recognize that the president has unlimited power to remove those who assist him in carrying out his duties. Andrea Hsu and PR News the Supreme.
Ryland Barton (1:52)
Court is clearing the way for Texas to use a new congressional map for its midterm elections, but it doesn't guarantee Republican control of the House next year as President Trump sought by pressing for Texas to redistrict in the first place, Houston Public Media reporter Andrew Schneider explains.
Andrew Schneider (2:07)
Why Texas moved to redistrict its congressional map mid decade set off a nationwide arms race to redistrict by both parties. Travis Crumb is a law professor at Washington University in St. Louis.
Travis Crumb (2:19)
The Signal that gets sent with this case is going to reverberate in the legal challenges to California. Future legal challenges to other mid decade redistricting maps that are that are being filed across the country.