Trump v. Slaughter · ¶84

The dissent, on the other hand, sweeps the chess pieces off the board, rejecting not only Free Enterprise Fund and Seila Law but Myers and the Decision of 1789 as well. On its view, “there is no evidence that those who shaped or ratified the Constitution adopted the . . . general rule of at-will removal,” post, at 14—no matter the view expressed by Washington, Jefferson, Madison, and Hamilton in the first years of the Republic; no matter the practice of the First Congress and all our early Presidents; and no matter the Convention’s insistence upon “[u]nity in the Executive,” 1 Farrand’s Records 66 (J. Wilson).

slip opinion, revised 7/07/26
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