Trump v. Slaughter · ¶45

Our landmark decision, however, came 100 years ago in Myers v. United States, 272 U. S. 52. That case arose from an unlikely source—a dispute over management of the post office in Portland, Oregon. See id., at 106. Under an 1876 statute, the President had to receive the “advice and consent of the Senate” not only to appoint postmasters but also to remove them. §6, 19 Stat. 80. For reasons that are now lost to history, President Wilson fired Portland’s postmaster, Frank Myers, and did so without the Senate’s consent. 272 U. S., at 106–107. Myers sued for backpay. See id., at 106.

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