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Non-Judicial Precedent and the Removal Power
David A. Strauss
David A. Strauss is the Gerald Ratner Distinguished Service Professor of Law at the University of Chicago.

The majority and dissenting opinions in Seila Law LLC v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau disagreed about the interpretation of previous Supreme Court decisions that considered the president’s power to remove executive branch officials. But in many ways the more important disagreement was about historical practice.