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This Day in Legal History: Andrew Johnson Suspends Secretary Stanton
On August 12, 1867, President Andrew Johnson suspended Edwin Stanton, his Secretary of War, and installed General Ulysses S. Grant to run the department temporarily. It was a quiet-sounding personnel move that lit the fuse on one of the great constitutional confrontations in American history—and it turned on a question we still argue about: how much control a president has over the officials who serve beneath him.
The context was Reconstruction. Stanton was a close ally of the Radical Republicans in Congress, and as…
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