Last month's decision by the U.S. Supreme Court rejecting President Obama's January 2012 recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board came at a delicate time, with a debate raging between ...

President Obama has left the door open to the possibility of more recess appointments, as his spokesman refused to confirm or deny that the president intends to make other controversial appointments. ...

In Dissent is a recurring series by Anastasia Boden on Supreme Court dissents that have shaped (or reshaped) our country. On a cold January day in 2012, a senator walked into the U.S. Capitol, banged ...

The National Labor Relations Board plans to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to review a ruling by the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals that found three NLRB appointments to be invalid, according to an AHA ...

Jacob Adams is a journalism fellow at The Daily Signal. Send an email to Jacob. Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., on Tuesday called for an end to Democrats’ obstruction of President Donald ...

In a hearing that at times felt more like a law school seminar, members of the House Judiciary Committee on Feb. 15 quizzed a panel of legal experts on the constitutionality of four recess ...

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As President-elect Donald Trump moves to set up a more forceful presidency than in his first term, he is choosing loyalists for his Cabinet and considering a tool known as recess appointments to skip ...

After the bold recess appointment of Richard Cordray to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, President Barack Obama is prepared to flex his considerable executive muscle again. Suggested ...

The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear a case that, at its heart, is a question of semantics: When is a Senate recess actually a Senate recess? Stemming from a January 2012 Obama appointment of ...

Update: 2:45 p.m., January 25th -- White House press secretary Jay Carney called the court's ruling "novel and unprecedented," saying that it "contradicts 150 year of practice by Democratic and ...