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38 Am. U. L. Rev. 313 (1988-1989)
Morrison v. Olson: A Formalistic Perspective on Why the Court Was Wrong

handle is hein.journals/aulr38 and id is 329 raw text is: MORRISON V OLSON: A FORMALISTIC PERSPECTIVE ON WHY THE COURT WAS WRONG LEE S. LIBERMAN* TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction ................................................ 313 I. The Vesting Clause Dispute ......................... 314 II. The Court's Resolution ................................ 317 A. Is Investigation and Prosecution of Crime Executive Power? ............................................ 318 B. The Court's View of the Vesting Clause and the Take Care Clause ................................. 325 1. Morrison and Nixon ............................. 326 a. Separation of powers, overlapping powers, blended powers, and checks and balances ... 328 b. Does the Nixon test require a finding of interference with the entire executive branch's functioning? ....................... 335 2. Morrison and Myers ............................. 335 III. Can the Court's Approach Be Defended on Other Grounds? .............................................. 342 A. Form Versus Function ............................. 343 B. The Difficulties with Functionalism ................ 345 C. Morrison and Functionalism ........................ 349 IV. A Formalist Resolution of Morrison ..................... 352 Conclusion ................................................. 358 INTRODUCTION When Morrison v. Olson came down on June 29 and the Court, by * Associate Counsel to the President of the United States. I wrote this Article while I was an Assistant Professor at George Mason School of Law. B.A., 1979, Yale; J.D., 1983, University of Chicago. 1. 108 S. Ct. 2597 (1988). 313

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