Trump v. Cook · ¶155

The Court today upholds the constitutionality of a limitation on the President’s ability to remove a principal executive officer for only the third time in American history. Its constitutional reasoning consists of two paragraphs. The Court does not dispute that members of the Federal Reserve Board exercise (a great deal of ) federal executive power. It does not dispute that any person who exercises federal executive power must be freely removable by the President. And it does not dispute that its holding today contravenes those principles by preventing the President from freely removing members of the Federal Reserve Board. Instead, the Court endorses a contradiction: “the Constitution vests the whole executive power in the President alone,” Slaughter, 609 U. S., at ＿＿＿ (slip op., at 21) (internal quotation marks omitted), but the Board can exercise executive power “independen[t] from…

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