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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Though the Senate is tasked with an advice and consent role in the confirmation process, the Constitution's Recess Appointment Clause affords the president the ability to temporarily fill ...

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 ...

Prickly, Grotke, and Finster head home during a snowstorm and remember the times with T.J. and the gang. When they get stuck in a snowbank, Prickly blames it on T.J. and the gang, although Grotke says ...

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President-elect Trump has urged the next leader of Senate Republicans to support him in making recess appointments as three ...