The rest of the court has become more conservative since then, a result of Trump's three high court appointments in his first ...

In its 234 years, the Supreme Court has decided only one case involving recess appointments. If the conservative justices had ...

Ultimately, the Senate must take action to agree with Trump’s picks, one way or another. There is no way around it, all ...

Probably not—and Roberts, Thomas and Alito already expressed disapproval in the 2014 Noel Canning case.

Despite the facile comments that the president is “entitled” to have the Cabinet secretaries and of his own choosing, the ...

Justice Antonin Scalia, a conservative giant, said attempts to circumvent the Senate’s responsibility to vet nominees were ...

The Supreme Court could easily strike down President-elect Donald Trump's cabinet picks if he tries to kneecap the Senate confirmation process with recess appointments.

In brief: The Supreme Court might well rule that the president’s power to make recess appointments is limited to intersession recesses—the recesses between two Senate sessions—and ...

As the Trump-Vance administration shapes up and selects its Cabinet and advisers, the looming Senate confirmation process, ...

With some of President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet and other presumptive nominees facing an uncertain path to confirmation, ...

The Trump transition team's plan to install controversial nominees in Cabinet jobs may be blocked by the conservative Supreme ...

Trump and his Republican allies are talking about going around the Senate for his more contentious nominations.