Reading Room Document

The President's Authority to Remove the Chairman of the Consumer Product Safety Commission

The Chairman of the Consumer Product Safety Commission serves at the pleasure of the President and the President has the constitutional authority to remove her for any reason. The OLC does not provide release dates for its opinions, so the release date listed is the date on which the opinion was authored. The original opinion is available at www.justice.gov/file/19171/download.

July 31, 2001