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grandempirelast Thursday at 6:33 AM1 replyview on HN

“ Myers v. United States, 272 U.S. 52 (1926), was a United States Supreme Court decision ruling that the President has the exclusive power to remove executive branch officials, and does not need the approval of the Senate or any other legislative body.”


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kasey_junklast Thursday at 11:28 AM

Yes. Now look up Humphreys Executor which is mentioned in the next sentence after the sentence you quoted in Wikipedia.

It limits that power when it comes to the quasi-legislative agencies.

That was the unambiguous law of the land for nearly 100 years until the current court whittled down the exclusion in Seila in 2020.