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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 passed ...

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 ...

Republicans are grappling with the idea that President-elect Trump could test the limits of his constitutional authority by appointing controversial picks to his Cabinet with recess appointments.

Republican senators are pouring cold water on the idea that President-elect Trump could force the Senate into an extended recess next year so he would be able to fill key positions in his Cabinet ...

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 ...

Rumors are swirling about whether the president-elect will call a recess for the Senate and appoint his Cabinet, as some of his picks may have trouble getting through Congress. Presidents have ...

(Allison Robbert/Reuters) I’ve already explained that a president’s blanket recess appointments of Cabinet officials at the start of a presidential term would eviscerate the Senate’s ...

His desire to use so-called recess appointments would erode the Senate’s power and tradition by sidestepping the confirmation process, and the Democratic obstruction that comes with it ...