Recess appointments would limit public scrutiny and deny Democratic senators a chance to question Trump nominees, as candidates typically are required to submit background materials and testify ...

President-elect Donald Trump has called on the next Senate majority leader to allow recess appointments — a centuries-old ...

There are two large questions at issue in this recess-appointments controversy. One is whether it’s proper for a president at the outset of his term to try to do blanket recess appointments of ...

In brief: The Supreme Court might well rule that the president’s power to make recess appointments is limited to intersession recesses—the recesses between two Senate sessions—and ...

President-elect Donald Trump Sunday weighed into the race for Senate Republican leader, saying any senator who wanted the "coveted" position "must agree to recess appointments" — allowing Trump ...

Recess appointments, however, expire at the end of the Senate’s next session. In the modern era, presidents have used their power of recess appointment to circumvent the process and so Congress ...

The President shall have Power to fill up all Vacancies that may happen during the Recess of the Senate, by granting Commissions which shall expire at the End of their next Session. At the ...

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Terminated NLRB Member Gwynne Wilcox challenged her removal from the Board and President Donald Trump’s effort to reshape the NLRB’s membership in ...