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Legal experts are claiming that the U.S. Supreme Court may come to regret its emergency "shadow docket" decision allowing President Donald Trump to fire members of two federal boards -- a move that was considered illegal.

Without hearing the merits of the case, the court issued its ruling Thursday that permitted Trump to fire a member of the National Labor Relations Board and a member of the Merit Systems Protection Board, an agency that ensures federal employment decisions are not influenced by politics.

In a preview of Slate's "Amicus" podcast, legal journalist Mark Joseph Stern exclaimed, "He illegally fired people, and the Supreme Court just rubber-stamped it!"...