How do recess appointments, the capability Trump is seeking, work? 02:49 Washington — President-elect Donald Trump has selected for some of the top roles in his administration controversial ...

The Recess Appointment Clause to the Constitution “authorizes the President to make temporary appointments when the Senate is not in session,” during a recess, or break, and was created by the ...

But the process was uprooted by the Supreme Court in 2014, when justices ruled against former President Obama, calling multiple of his recess appointments unconstitutional and ruling recess ...

Presidents have used recess appointments to circumvent the Senate-confirmation process throughout U.S. history, ... who died in 2016, wrote of the recess-appointment power, ...

UPDATED Sunday 8:48 a.m. The Senate is currently in recess until February 22. The recess began on Friday. Whether this opens an opportunity for a recess appointment depends upon how Senate leaders ...

The last recess appointment was Richard Griffin Jr. to the National Labor Relations Board on Jan. 4, 2012. He was part of four recess appointments by Obama on that day.

On the Center for Renewing America’s website, Jeff Clark and Anthony Licata have published today an extended defense of President-elect Trump’s proposal to use recess appointments to fill his ...

The Biden Justice Department, joined by the Senate, should make it clear that this recess-appointment ploy is as unconstitutional as it is unwise and should end before it begins.

Republican Senator Kevin Cramer has publicly rejected the possibility of a recess appointment for controversial Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz, calling the move "unwise.". Cramer made the remarks ...

The court also ruled that even during an inter-session recess, the president cannot use his recess appointment power to fill a vacancy that already existed before the recess. Instead, he can only make ...

Obama has not exercised his recess appointment power since he named the three individuals to the labor panel and Richard Cordray to head the newly-created Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in 2012.