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Power of Congress to Authorize Federal Officers or Agencies to Remove or Discipline Presidential Appointees Performing Executive Functions
Presidential Appointees—Removal Power or Disciplinary Action—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/21566/download.
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