Sentences with phrase «most executive branch officials»

Although ethicists criticized the arrangement as falling short of the blind trusts set up by recent former presidents, Trump said he was doing more than he had to and noted that an ethics law that applies to most executive branch officials exempts the president.

But, most executive branch officials have, at most, «qualified immunity».

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However, the Supreme Court has repeatedly held, most recently in Bowsher v. Synar (1986), that executive branch officials serve at the pleasure of the president and may be unilaterally removed.

This lack of accountability raises legitimacy concerns, the most prominent of which is the fear executive branch officials will delegate controversial policy decisions to intergovernmental bodies in order to escape democratic deliberation.