Trump v. Slaughter · ¶17
The District Court agreed, granting Slaughter’s motion for summary judgment. 791 F. Supp. 3d 1 (DC 2025). It acknowledged that Myers generally permits the President to remove “executive officers” at will, as part of his “general administrative control of those executing the laws.” 791 F. Supp. 3d, at 11 (quoting Myers, 272 U. S., at 164). But it considered itself bound by Humphrey’s Executor v. United States, 295 U. S. 602 (1935). That case, the District Court explained, carved out an exception to Myers’s general rule for the FTC, which the Humphrey’s Court described as a multimember “expert” agency that exercised solely “quasilegislative” and “quasi-judicial” functions. 791 F. Supp. 3d, at 13, 17–18. The court declared the President’s “purported removal” ultra vires and issued a permanent injunction barring interference “with Ms. Slaughter’s right to perform her lawful duties.” App.…Read in context ›
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