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 ...

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 ...

While president, Trump expressed enthusiasm for recess appointments, not least because the interim office holders followed his wishes while auditioning for permanent appointments. But Congress ...

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 ...

In exceptional circumstances — when the Senate is in recess and not available to review a nominee whose service is necessary — the Constitution empowers the president to make a recess appointment.

blocked hundreds of military nominations, it takes three days to confirm any individual nomination when a senator objects. While president, Trump expressed enthusiasm for recess appointments, not ...

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 ...

I think we can tell - from who was chosen - what Trump values,” said University of Texas at Tyler Professor of Public ...

John Thune-- Trump demanded members must support recess appointments. This would circumvent the advice and consent role of the Senate in confirming those nominees. Advertisement Trump said the ...

About a year and a half into their career as restaurant owners, Tyler Ottwein and Casey Hinman continue to be pleasantly ...