The Trump transition team may think it has a game plan to install controversial nominees in Cabinet jobs, but the conservative Supreme Court is likely to block it. The regular order would be for ...

The withdrawal of Matt Gaetz from consideration as a nominee for attorney general may quiet the dispute surrounding President-elect Donald Trump’s stratagem of using recess appointments to avoid ...

In that case, the Constitution allows the president to fill vacancies unilaterally, without the Senate’s advice and consent. These are known as recess appointments. And while they allow for executive ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Zoom — the company best known for bringing the world the videoconferencing software that got corporate workers through the coronavirus pandemic — wants to be known for its status as an AI ...

After he was elected a second time, Mr. Trump publicly demanded that the contenders for the post of Senate majority leader allow him to make recess appointments for top government positions ...

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 ...

Members of Congress left their offices on Capitol Hill on November 22 for a week-long Thanksgiving recess and are slated to return on December 2 for the final session of the 118th Congress. Upon their ...

Trump, Give Up on That Wall Matt Gaetz’s withdrawing his name from consideration to be attorney general removes the most pressing reason for Donald Trump to want to recess-appoint his entire ...

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 ...