Power of the President to Remove Presidential Appointees From the National Capital Planning Commission

Power of the President to Remove Presidential Appointees from the National Capital Planning Commission T here is no indication in the text o r legislative history o f the Hom e Rule Act that C ongress intended to lim it the P re sid en t’s pow er to rem ove his appointees from the N ational C apital P lanning Com m ission. T he com position o f the Com m ission and the duties im posed on it indicate that Congress did not intend it to be a quasi-legislative o r quasi-judicial body operating free of the President’s policy influence, and its duties are essentially of an executive nature. T hus…