Almost two weeks have passed since now President-elect Donald Trump defeated Vice President Kamala Harris to return to the ...

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

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

President-elect Donald Trump said the next Senate majority leader should allow the president to make recess appointments ... These appointments come with a time limit, though.

Trump's use of recess appointments would bypass the Senate confirmation process for some of the most powerful positions in ...

President-elect Donald Trump has asked the Senate to allow him to use recess appointments to install his picks for high-level ...

President-elect Donald Trump is asking the incoming Senate, which will be controlled by his Republican Party, to temporarily go out of session once he’s inaugurated Jan. 20 so that he can jam through ...

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 ...

Bush and Bill Clinton, however, made dozens of recess appointments during their time in the Oval Office. The Senate has been known to hold “pro forma” sessions to halt the procedure ...

The process could also be delayed by Democrats in the minority, who could rely on procedural maneuvers to extend the time it takes for Trump's Cabinet to be confirmed. But the recess appointment ...

In a 9-0 decision, the Supreme Court ruled that three days is “too short a time to bring a recess within the scope of the Clause.” The Senate has used “pro forma” sessions when lawmakers ...

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 ...