Removal Right Without Control

Updated: 2026.04.01 17D ago 2 sources
The essay advances a middle path: Congress may vest discretionary duties in officers that the President cannot micromanage, yet the President still retains a constitutional right to remove those officers for any reason. It grounds removal in the executive’s law‑execution oversight and ties the Opinions Clause to the President’s information rights needed to exercise removal. — This reframes unitary‑executive debates by separating supervision from removal, offering courts and Congress a coherent standard for agency design and presidential accountability.

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UFC-Que Choisir Takes Ubisoft To French Court Over the Crew Shutdown
BeauHD 2026.04.01 80% relevant
The lawsuit alleges Ubisoft imposed contract clauses that strip buyers of playback rights when servers are shut, which is precisely the removal‑vs‑control tension captured by 'Removal Right Without Control' — actor: UFC‑Que Choisir; event: Creteil Judicial Court filing against Ubisoft over The Crew shutdown.
Removal Power and the Original Presidency
Ilan Wurman 2025.10.15 100% relevant
Wurman’s claim that 'the executive power' is the power to oversee execution and necessarily includes removal, while the Opinions Clause supplies the informational duty enabling that oversight.
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