With some of President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet and other presumptive nominees facing an uncertain path to confirmation, some Republicans have considered embracing recess appointments to ...

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"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." ...

Trump and his Republican allies are talking about going around the Senate and using temporary recess appointments, which last no more than two years. Invoking that authority could result in a ...

Trump, cognizant of these challenges, has threatened to sidestep the confirmation process altogether by making what are known as recess appointments when the Senate isn’t in session. The ...

For cases when delays are inevitable and problematic, the founders created the recess appointments clause — which was designed to be the exception, not the rule. The Constitution’s recess ...

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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 High Court of Justice in Dutse, Jigawa State, has announced its Christmas and New Year recess, citing provisions of Section 274 of the Constitution and Legal Notice No 4 of 2015. In a ...

The Trump transition team is proposing that the president-elect forgo the regular advice-and-consent process and use his recess appointment power to fill his Cabinet—and perhaps install many ...