Morton v. Christian

How courts have described this case

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• stating that one indispensable attribute of public office is the right to exercise some portion of sovereign power
• an advisory position was not a “civil office of honor, trust, or emolument under . . . the United States” because it lacked an “indispensa- ble attribute of public office”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).