Reading Room Document

Appointment of an Acting Staff Director of the United States Commission on Civil Rights

This opinion concludes that the Commission on Civil Rights cannot supersede President Clinton's appointment of Stuart Ishimaru as its Acting Staff Director, since the Constitution vests the president with the authority to make this appointment and the Comission had no legal authority to override it. 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 https://justice.gov/olc/page/file/1311936/download.

January 13, 1994