An exchange between Justice Sonia Sotomayor and Donald Trump's Solicitor General D. John Sauer briefly silenced the U.S. Supreme Court chamber Tuesday.

Sauer argued in Trump v. Slaughter – a case that could redefine the limits of presidential power over independent agencies and give the Trump more authority to fire officials – that the Constitution vests full removal authority in the president and that a 90-year precedent insulating officials inside those agencies should be discarded — showing how far the government intended to take the challenge, reported Newsweek.

“You’re asking us to destroy the structure of government and to take away from Congress its ability to protect its idea that the government is better structured with some agencies that are independent,” Sotomayor said.

Justice Samuel Alito asked Sauer to respond, and he assured the court that overturning the Humphrey’s Executor precedent – allowing President Donald Trump to fire independent agency leaders – would not fundamentally reshape the government.

“The sky will not fall,” Sauer said. “The entire government will move toward accountability to the people.”

The court's liberals appear inclined to believe those removal protections preserve congressional intentions in creating the agencies while the conservative majority appears to view those limits as incompatible with Article II of the Constitution.

“What you’re saying is the president can do more than the law permits," Sotomayor said.

That silenced the room, and Sauer hurriedly rephrased some of his earlier arguments in favor of reversing Humphrey.

“Humphrey's must be overruled," Sauer argued. "It has become a decaying husk with bold and particularly dangerous pretensions.”

Officials working for President Donald Trump in the Department of the Treasury have stepped forward to help Turning Point USA CEO Erika Kirk refute fraud claims made by MAGA influencer Candace Owens.

Sources told CBS News that the Treasury Department took the unusual step of sending a letter to Kirk after Owens made claims about Turning Point USA donations. According to the report, a few donors had requested that their contributions be returned.

Charlie Kirk Show producer Blake Neff disputed Owens's "claims of financial impropriety and fraud at Turning Point adding up into the millions of dollars — which, again, is not true."

"Charlie made sure the organization was audited by a third party every year," Neff said last week. "He personally reviewed, and he signed off on every expense report and literally every single bill paid by the organization — down to a single United States dollar. We have never missed a 990 deadline."

The letter from the Treasury said that none of the Turning Point organizations being run by Kirk were under investigation.

"The IRS is able to provide this type of information upon request by the taxpayer," a Treasury official told CBS News. "And in this case, it's hideous that malicious lies and smears obligated her to make the request."

Turning Point used Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort to hold its annual fundraising gala over the weekend. Officials said the event was "maxed out" both nights.

A complaint by Donald Trump advisor Stephen Miller’s wife that their family had been victimized by protesters making what were described as “terroristic” threats fell apart on Tuesday with the release of a police incident report that pointed out that she had made much ado about nothing.

According to a report from Zeteo, Katie Miller, a former Trump administration functionary who has traded on her husband’s name to launch a career as a podcaster, had called police because she feared protesters outside their home, now listed for sale at $3.75 million.

After the event, she ran to Fox News where she cited her own picture of chalking on her sidewalk that read “Stephen Miller is preying on families” as “doxing” and claimed, “There are several criminal statutes that were violated in the case.”

Virginia police appear to disagree with Miller’s assertion.

According to the police report, “The messages were non-threatening and alluded to political issues such as immigration, transgender rights, DEI, and white supremacy.”

The released report comes just days after Katie Miller appeared on the “Ruthless” podcast where she complained, “There were people who drove by my home, there were people who sent us death threats, who knew where we lived, and it was no longer safe for our children to play in our front yard, or our backyard.”

She also dramatically stated that she and her children faced threats from her neighbors.

"But unfortunately, what happens when you have little kids who are impossible to get in and out of car seats, right? How many parents can relate to a kid doing a tantrum?" she remarked. "How many parents can relate to their kids chalking or learning to ride a bike, and that takes a while and your heads are not on a swivel looking around for who's coming fast with a high-powered weapon? And that’s a society that we’re living in."

According to the report, the Millers later moved onto a military base despite her claim, “We will not back down. We will not cower in fear.”