Reading Room Document

Whether the Special Counsel for the Merit Systems Protection Board May Be Protected by Statute From Removal by the President Except for Specific Cause

Presidential Appointees—Removal Power—Civil Service Reform Act—Constitutional Law (Article II, § 2, cl. 2) 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/21586/download.

May 26, 1978