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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Obama should feel free to make appointments at any time when the Senate is not sitting as a deliberative body. Barack Obama won a modest summer victory. A select number of his long-blocked nominees ...

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 ...

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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. ...

FIRST ON FOX: Senate Majority Whip John Barrasso is ready to go nuclear on Senate Democrats and their blockade of President Donald Trump’s nominees. Before leaving Washington, D.C., for their ...

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 ...

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 ...