Beryl Howell: “The chilling effect of this executive order, 14230, threatens to significantly undermine the integrity of our entire…”

The President does not have the authority to terminate members of the National Labor Relations Board at will.

An American President is not a king — not even an 'elected' one — and his power to remove federal officers and honest civil servants like plaintiff is not absolute, but may be constrained in appropriate circumstances, as are present here.

The chilling effect of this executive order ... threatens to significantly undermine the integrity of our entire legal system.

A President who touts an image of himself as a ‘king’ or a ‘dictator,’ perhaps as his vision of effective leadership, fundamentally misapprehends the role under Article II of the U.S. Constitution.