Trump v. Cook · ¶145
The Court’s entire argument is built on a single line of dicta (which the Court repeats four times) from those opinions. Ante, at 18, 19–20. In an aside, Reagan stated (and Shurtleff repeated) that “notice and hearing are essential” if “causes of removal are specified by constitution or statute, as also where the term of office is for a fixed period.” Reagan, 182 U. S., at 425; see Shurtleff, 189 U. S., at 314. This one line does not interpret the “same language” that the Federal Reserve Act’s removal provision used, so the prior-construction canon “has no application here.” Arm strong, 575 U. S., at 330; contra, ante, at 20. The statute in Reagan provided for removals for “causes prescribed by law,” 182 U. S., at 424, and the one in Shurtleff provided for removals “for inefficiency, neglect of duty, or malfeasance in office,” 189 U. S., at 313. None of those phrases appears in the…Read in context ›
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