Tension in the Unitary Executive: How Taft Constructed the Epochal Opinion of  Myers v. United States

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“…37 Indeed, one scholar has recently labeled his opinion "epochal." 38 After all, "who better than a former chief executive could be more familiar with the unfortunate results of congressional tampering with the independent power of executive removal?" 39 For Taft, absent any express provisions in the Constitution on the president's power of removal of executive branch appointees, any congressionally imposed restrictions on removal were constitutionally invalid.…”