From a Wall Street Journal letter to the editor by NLPC Counsel Paul Kamenar:
William Galston argues that the Supreme Court’s decision in Humphrey’s Executor v. United States (1935) “stands in the president’s way” of firing the head of the Office of the Special Counsel (“You’re Fired? Not So Fast,” Politics & Ideas, Feb. 19).
Hardly. The court ruled in Seila Law LCC v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (2020) and Collins v. Yellen (2021) that the president can summarily fire the head of an independent agency…President Biden in 2021 relied on Seila and Collins when he fired Andrew Saul, head of the Social Security Administration, before his term expired.
Click here for the entire letter (pay wall).
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