Reading Room Document

Authority of the President to Remove the Staff Director of the Civil Rights Commission and Appoint an Acting Staff Director

The President has the authority to remove the Staff Director of the United States Commission on Civil Rights and to appoint an Acting Staff Director. The OLC does not provide release dates for its opinions, so the release date listed is the date on which the opinion was authored. The original opinion is available at www.justice.gov/file/19246/download.

March 30, 2001