In 1933 Roosevelt tried to sack William Humphrey, one of the five commissioners of the Federal Trade Commission, over disagreements on trade policy and Humphrey’s opposition to his New Deal programmes.

As legal challenges to the Trump administration mount, the justices are facing a key test — a flood of “emergency applications” asking for immediate intervention.

He sits in a foreign prison solely at the behest of the United States, as the product of a Kafka-esque mistake,” Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s lawyers said.