Document Type
Article
Publication Date
12-2025
Abstract
This term the Supreme Court is hearing argument in two major cases regarding the law of federal offices. One — Trump v. Slaughter — may strip Congress of the power to place any restrictions on the President’s ability to remove administrators at will. Another — Trump v. Cook — will address how such restrictions work, assuming that the President has to follow them.
Disciplines
Administrative Law | Constitutional Law | Law
Recommended Citation
Jane Manners & Lev Menand,
Slaughter, Parsons, and the Original Meaning of a Term of Years,
Yale J. on Reg. Notice & Comment, December 8, 2025
(2025).
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/faculty_scholarship/4796