Seen at Insty, a thought from Randy Barnett concerning this issue:
Argument: Allowing the Prez to remove administrative officials will transfer an enormous amount of power to the Prez.
Question: Transfer from whom? Who currently has all that power?
One more question: And where in the Constitution does it grant those executive powers outside the Presidency?
Ipse dixit.
Corollary thought: if Trump wanted to make a serious difference to the Judiciary, he’d nominate Randy Barnett to the Supreme Court when one of the current super-lawyers retires or croaks.
” the government is better structured with some agencies that are independent.”
Independent in that they have no oversight? No budget funding?
Then why do they exist?
IIRC, except for judges, appointees “serve at the pleasure of the President.”