Trump v. Cook · ¶148

The Court thus has to rephrase even the one line of dicta to describe a new “form of tenure”: a “term of years limited only by removal `for cause.' ” Ante, at 551. This “form of tenure” does not appear in either Reagan or Shurtleff; it is a classification that the Court discovers for the first time today. Ante, at 551. And, as far as I am aware, no court ever before today (including the two courts below) has held that any federal statute implicitly requires notice and a hearing when it provides for a term of years limited by removal for cause. The Court thus “falls well short” of the standard “required to conclude that Congress incorporated a judicial definition into a statutory term.” Learning Resources, 607 U. S., at 252–253, n. 5.

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