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11. Not yet - and perhaps not at all

Wed Jul 23, 2025, 08:29 PM

Jul 23

There were actually two cases within a few years of each other - one that said the president could fire people he appointed... and the other that said he couldn't. The difference turned on whether the agency Congress created was fully part of the executive branch or instead "quasi legislative" and "quasi judicial," in which case he couldn't (other than for cause).

So they could easily rule that both cases remain precedential and rule based on whether each of the agencies involved was clearly part of the executive branch. I suppose they could also rule that in some of these cases the president was firing people for cause... though I don't think the record reflects that.

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