{"id":3933,"date":"2021-06-14T11:49:35","date_gmt":"2021-06-14T15:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/georgetown-law-journal\/glj-online\/glj-online-vol-110\/selia-law-as-separation-of-powers-posturing\/"},"modified":"2025-05-12T11:13:27","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T15:13:27","slug":"seila-law-as-separation-of-powers-posturing","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/georgetown-law-journal\/submit\/glj-online\/glj-online-vol-110\/seila-law-as-separation-of-powers-posturing\/","title":{"rendered":"Seila Law as Separation-of-Powers Posturing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>The Court rarely decides separation-of-powers cases, and when it does, academics usually scramble to fit such decisions into a broader doctrinal narrative. Such was the case when in June of 2020 the Supreme Court decided <\/i>Seila Law LLC v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau<i>. In short, the Court ruled that it is unconstitutional for Congress to restrict the President\u2019s removal power of an agency head if that agency is headed by a single person. For some reason, the Court concluded that such removal restrictions are permissible when applied to multi-headed agencies but not single-headed agencies. This Article argues that an attempt to doctrinalize <\/i>Seila <i>is an attempt to see a forest where there are only trees. Ultimately, this Article argues that the decision makes most sense not as part of a broader principled doctrine but rather as a form of symbolic posturing the Court engages in to maintain the appearance that it takes the separation of powers seriously.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p>Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/georgetown-law-journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2021\/06\/Cantu_Seila-Law.pdf\"><strong>Seila Law <em>as Separation-of-Powers Posturing<\/em><\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Court rarely decides separation-of-powers cases, and when it does, academics usually scramble to fit such decisions into a broader doctrinal narrative. Such was the case when in June of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5086,"featured_media":0,"parent":842,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"abstract.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":"","_tec_slr_enabled":"","_tec_slr_layout":""},"class_list":["post-3933","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"ticketed":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/georgetown-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/georgetown-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/georgetown-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/georgetown-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5086"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/georgetown-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3933"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/georgetown-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3940,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/georgetown-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3933\/revisions\/3940"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/georgetown-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/georgetown-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}