Shurtleff v. United States

Shurtleff v. United States
Shurtleff v. United States
	Supreme Court of the United States
Argued January 20, 1903; Decided April 6, 1903
Full case name	Ferdinand N. Shurtleff v. United States
Citations	189 U.S. 311 (more)
Holding
	The President can, by virtue of his powers under the Appointments Clause, remove an officer of the United States. Absent an express law to the contrary, Congress will not be presumed to have taken away this power.
Court membership
	Chief Justice Melville Fuller Associate Justices John M. Harlan · David J. Brewer; Henry B. Brown · Edward D. White; Rufus W. Peckham · Joseph McKenna; Oliver W. Holmes Jr. · William R. Day
Case opinion
Majority	Peckham, joined by unanimous
Laws applied
	U.S. Const. art. II, § 2, cl. 2

Shurtleff v. United States, 189 U.S. 311 (1903), was a decision of the United States Supreme Court concerning the President's removal power under the Appointments Clause.

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