Trump v. Slaughter · ¶10

One hundred years ago, this Court honored the Convention’s choice in the seminal case of Myers v. United States, 272 U. S. 52 (1926). There, we held that the Constitution “grants to the President” the “general administrative control of those executing the laws, including the power of appointment and removal of executive officers.” Id., at 163– 164. Because no one could “execute the laws” “alone and unaided,” Chief Justice Taft explained for the Court, the President must be permitted to “select those who . . . act for him” and “remov[e] those for whom he can not continue to be responsible.” Id., at 117. “[T]o hold otherwise would make it impossible for the President” to fulfill his constitutional obligation “to take care that the laws be faithfully executed.” Id., at 164.

slip opinion, revised 7/07/26
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