Trump v. Cook · ¶146

Not even the underlying logic of the one line of dicta on which the Court relies supports its conclusion. In the Federal Reserve Act, no “causes of removal are specified,” and this Court has never interpreted a mere “fixed” “term of office,” Reagan, 182 U. S., at 425, to guarantee notice and a hearing. After all, hundreds of statutes provide for fixed terms of office, and nobody believes that all of those statutes implicitly require notice and a hearing. —————— service in no way limited the President’s removal power”); Parsons v. United States, 167 U. S. 324, 328 (1897) (4-year term with no removal restriction was “fixed”).

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