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 ...

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 ...

Installing Cabinet picks without Senate vote can be constitutional, experts say By urging the incoming GOP Senate majority to embrace recess appointments to install members of his Cabinet ...

President-elect Trump has urged the next leader of Senate Republicans to support him in making recess appointments as three prominent GOP members are battling it out to succeed their leader ...

President-elect Donald Trump said the next Senate majority leader should allow the president to make recess appointments. What are they? Photo from Ian Hutchinson, UnSplash President-elect Donald ...

A recess appointment is a temporary appointment made by the President of the United States to fill a vacant federal position while the United States Senate is in recess. Article II, Section 2 of the U ...

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 ...