Humphrey’s Executor v. United States

…however, the court held in Humphrey’s Executor v. United States (1935) that the president could not remove a member of an independent regulatory agency in defiance of restrictions provided by law. The court held in that case that the Myers principle applied only to “purely executive officers.” The Humphrey’s decision…

…the separation of powers”; whether Humphrey’s Executor v. United States (1935), in which the Supreme Court held that the Federal Trade Commission Act (1914) prohibited the removal of commission members for any reason other than “inefficiency, neglect of duty, or malfeasance in office,” should be overruled; and “whether a federal…