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 ...

To allow Trump to make the appointments, Republican senators would have to pass a motion of adjournment with a simple ...

President-elect Donald Trump has declared a strong intention to use recess appointments in his next term. What are recess ...

This weekend, he took to social media saying that the next Senate Republican leader must "agree to recess appointments." CBS News congressional correspondent Nikole Killion breaks down what that ...

Additionally, the Constitution expressly confers the power on the President to make recess appointments,” Cornyn wrote, citing Article 2, Section 2, Clause 3 of the Constitution. Trump insisted ...

And how do they work? Here’s what you need to know: What are recess appointments? Article 2, Section 2, Clause 2 of the Constitution gives the president the power to “appoint Ambassadors ...

Donald Trump gears up for his second term, the challenge of quickly confirming his Cabinet nominees becomes a key issue. He ...

And Sen. John Cornyn (Texas) said on social media that the Constitution “expressly confers the power on the President to make recess appointments.” Chafetz said he can’t recall an instance ...

When President Dwight Eisenhower appointed William Brennan to the Supreme Court in 1956, the Senate was in recess. Eisenhower made the appointment unilaterally, in accordance with the Constitution ...

They are outlined in the Constitution’s Recess Appointment Clause, which states that “the president shall have power to fill up all vacancies that may happen during the recess of the Senate.” ...