‘A Sword and a Shield’: How the Supreme Court Supercharged Trump’s Power

800.8 - 825.415 Gillian Metzger

The court has also long upheld what we might call removal protections for inferior officers, which are basically officers who have somebody supervising them, even though they may also exercise some discretion. And one of the big decisions on inferior officers actually happened in 1988, and it involved the independent counsel, which was an official who was charged with investigating the