At times the president has asserted the power to remove individuals from office. Congress has often explicitly limited the president's power to remove; during the Reconstruction Era, Congress passed the Tenure of Office Act, purportedly preventing Andrew Johnson from removing, without the advice and consent of the Senate, anyone appointed with the advice and consent of the Senate. President Johnson ignored the Act, and was later impeached and acquitted. The constitutionality of the Act was not immediately settled. In "Myers v. United States", the Supreme Court held that Congress could not limit the president's power to remove an executive officer (the Postmaster General), but in "Humphrey's Executor v. United States", it upheld Congress's authority to restrict the president's power to remove officers of the Federal Trade Commission, an "administrative body cannot in any proper sense be characterized as an arm or an eye of the executive."