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United States drew a distinction between “purely executive officers” who were under the president’s control and those who served on a board “with quasi-judicial or quasi-legislative functions.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 17, 2025

I think naturally, as the Supreme Court described them in Humphrey’s, they’re quasi-legislative and judicial.

From Slate • Feb. 21, 2025

“But they didn’t. They said I was seeking a quasi-legislative change through a quasi-judicial process.”

From Washington Post • Apr. 1, 2023

Bern's lawyer Alain Chablais told the court in opening remarks that any prescriptive measures issued by the court would represent an overreach, giving it a "quasi-legislative" role.

From Reuters • Mar. 29, 2023

The only quasi-legislative body by which the ratio decidendi of such a decision could be disallowed would be an international gathering in which British views might find scanty support.

From Letters to "The Times" upon War and Neutrality (1881-1920) by Holland, Thomas Erskine, Sir