The President-elect may appoint extreme cabinet members without congressional scrutiny, writes Sen. Chris Coons.

As the Trump-Vance administration shapes up and selects its Cabinet and advisers, the looming Senate confirmation process, ...

With some of President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet and other presumptive nominees facing an uncertain path to confirmation, ...

President-elect Donald Trump is considering recess appointments to skip Senate confirmation for some of the most powerful ...

The use of recess appointments to install members of Donald Trump's Cabinet would circumvent a key Senate process, ...

Now, in fact, it's likely that Republicans will toy with those same decisions in Trump's ridiculous recess appointments plot. Politics has a way of coming full circle. Team Trump has proposed that ...

Trump’s intent to nominate loyalists to fill key Cabinet posts has set up a possible confrontation with the Senate.

With congressional Republican leadership on board and a mandate-level victory in the presidential election, recess ...

President-elect Donald Trump has said he may use temporary recess appointments to bypass the Senate confirmation process for ...

Trump's cabinet nominations require Senate confirmation, and despite a GOP majority, he may struggle to get his picks ...

For all the drama generated every four years by Cabinet appointments, defeat of a nominee by a vote in the Senate is ...

But within that rule, there is an exception: recess appointments. The recess appointments clause says that when the Senate is in recess, the president can make appointments temporarily without the ...