...limit to "good cause, the removal of the members of any body expected, in the words of Humphrey's case, 'to exercise its judgment without the leave or hindrance of any other official or any department of the government.1 295 US at 625-626." The decision in wisnej; simply restated, in terms emphasiting function...

...create "a body which shall be independent of executive authority, except in its selection, and free to exercise its judgment without the leave or hindrance...other official or any department of the government") (emphasis in original). 'The manner in which President Franklin Roosevelt exercised his removal power...

...influence from any other branch of government. And what is the essence of the decision in Humphrey's case? It drew a sharp line of cleavage between officials who were part of the Executive establishment and thus removable by virtue of the President's constitutional powers and those who are members of a body...

...of the Executive establishment and thus removable by virtue of the President's constitutional powera and those who are members of a body 'to exercise its judgment without the leave of hindrance of any other official or any department of government' ... as to whom a power of removal...

...not "purely executive." Writing for the Court, Justice Felix Frankfurter said: The Court has (drawn) a sharp line of cleavage between officials who were...members of a body to exercise its judgment without leave or hindrance of any other official or any department of the government, as to whom a power of...

...create "a body which shall be independent of executive authority, except in its selection, and free to exercise its judgment without the leave or hindrance...other official or any department of the government") (emphasis in original). 1 The manner in which President Roosevelt exercised his removal power further...

...from any other branch of government.183 And what is the essence of the decision in Humphrey's case? It drew a sharp line of cleavage between officials...other official or any department of the government" ... as to whom a power of removal exists only if Congress may fairly be said to have conferred it....

...York, 1995, p. 76. 20 295 US 624; 79 L.Ed. 1617(1934). 21 295 US 625-626, 79 L.Ed. 1617-1618 (1934). judgment without the leave or hindrance of any other official or any department of the government.' In brief, the Court found that the intent of the Act was to limit the executive power of removal to...

...intended and designed to be "independent of executive authority, except in its selection, and free to exercise its judgment without the leave or hindrance...other official or any department of the government." . . . Counsel for the President repeatedly stresses that the President has not delegated to the Special...

...service; a body which shall be independent of executive authority, except in its selection, and free to exercise its judgment without the leave or hindrance of any other official or any department of the government."2 In 1948, the DOJ and the FTC signed a formal liaison agreement creating a mechanism for...