As President-elect Donald Trump begins to assemble his second administration, he’s made it clear he wants his selections to be installed through a Constitutional procedure known as recess ...

President-elect Donald Trump has said he wants to use recess appointments to fill his Cabinet, a move that would bypass the Senate confirmation process for some of the most powerful positions in U.S.

"There will be no recess appointments," outgoing Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell reportedly told president-elect Donald Trump of his new cabinet choices, some of whom may face difficulty in ...

Trump is demanding that Republican leaders in the Senate, who will hold a majority in the chamber next year, agree to allow recess appointments. It would be a significant shift in power away from ...

It is also designed to rule out corrupt or unqualified nominees. There is, however, an exception to this process - recess appointments - which Trump appears intent to use to ensure his ...

National Review’s Andrew McCarthy dumps on talk of an “outrageous recess-appointment scheme” to let President Trump “install any unconfirmable nominees, such as Matt Gaetz.” First ...

Why it matters: By demanding recess appointments, Trump is asking the Senate to surrender its advise-and-consent role for cabinet confirmations, a key lever in the system of checks and balances ...

But Mr. Trump strayed from Justice Scalia’s understanding of the Constitution earlier this month when he proposed using recess appointments to sidestep the Senate’s constitutional role of ...

The Supreme Court could easily strike down President-elect Donald Trump's cabinet picks if he tries to kneecap the Senate confirmation process with recess appointments. Knowing that some of his ...

As President-elect Donald Trump moves to set up a more forceful presidency than in his first term, he is choosing loyalists for his Cabinet and considering a tool known as recess appointments to ...

One clause that they have pointed out to the returning president is his authority to ma k e “recess” appointments. Crafted at the end of the 18th century, when Congress was expected to meet in ...