Today’s edition of quick hits.

* The importance of the Trump v. Slaughter ruling will resonate for a long while: “The Supreme Court on Monday backed President Donald Trump’s power to fire members of independent federal agencies and overturned a 1935 precedent that had protected agency independence. At the same time, in a separate case, the court stopped Trump from immediately firing Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook.”

* A surprising outcome in Watson v. Republican National Committee: “The Supreme Court sided against Republicans on Monday to allow mail-in ballots that arrive after Election Day to be counted if they are postmarked by Election Day. Justice Amy Coney Barrett wrote the opinion for a 5-4 court, joined by Chief Justice John Roberts and the three Democratic appointees, over dissent from Justices Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh.”

* The E. Jean Carroll case: “The Supreme Court declined to review President Donald Trump’s appeal in one of the cases in which writer E. Jean Carroll won a multimillion-dollar jury award against him.”

* An unusual ideological breakdown on this one: “The Supreme Court on Monday ruled that law enforcement conducted a Fourth Amendment search when it got a ‘geofence’ warrant for Google location data to help solve an armed robbery.”

* Difficult diplomacy: “President Donald Trump said Monday that Iran had requested a meeting with U.S. counterparts, though one of Iran’s top negotiators said no further talks had been scheduled after attacks across the Persian Gulf over the weekend challenged negotiations to end the war.”

* Also in the Middle East: “Overnight airstrikes by Pakistani forces have killed at least 36 civilians and injured more than 160 others, Afghan officials said Monday, as tensions between the neighbors further escalated.”

* The official death toll in Venezuela is 1,450: “Local and international rescue teams raced against the clock to pull survivors from the rubble in Venezuela on Sunday, four days after two powerful earthquakes shook the northern state of La Guaira.”

* A rare Putin acknowledgement: “Russian President Vladimir Putin has conceded that the country is facing fuel shortages following a barrage of long-range Ukrainian drone strikes on key energy infrastructure, although he insisted the Kremlin was dealing with them.”

* The latest in a series of tariff threats: “President Trump threatened to scrap a just-finalized trade deal with the European Union on Friday, saying that any country that levies a digital services tax would be hit immediately with a 100 percent tariff on all exports to the United States.”

See you tomorrow.

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