Source: Law & Liberty
by Ilan Wurman
“The conventional view of executive power among formalists is that the Vesting Clause grants a ‘residuum’ of executive powers, including, for example, foreign affairs-related powers traditionally exercised by the British monarch. If removal is executive in nature, and the Constitution does not assign that power elsewhere or otherwise limit the president’s exercise of it, then it vests in the president by virtue of the residuum. As I have written elsewhere, I agree with Nelson and Mortenson that this account of the Vesting Clause is likely incorrect. My view is that ‘the executive power’ is a substantive grant of power, but of only one: the power to oversee the execution of the laws. But that power, I argue, includes removal — not because removal was a freestanding executive prerogative, but rather because it was part and parcel of the power to oversee the execution of the laws.” (10/15/25)
https://lawliberty.org/removal-power-and-the-original-presidency/