Republicans reacted angrily after President Obama installed four people in various federal positions with recess appointments, taking an end run around the U.S. Senate on a new consumer financial ...

President Obama visited the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Friday, giving a pep talk on the work that lies ahead. “Every one of you here has a critical role to play in making sure that ...

Is it now time to "regularize" recess appointments as the primary method of principal-officer staffing? Article II, § 2 has a dual appointment design, with ordinary and recess processes. The Jan. 6 ...

President Obama violated the Constitution when he circumvented the Senate to fill three vacancies on the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) in January 2012. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C.

Nobody should be surprised by the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in National Labor Relations Board v. Noel Canning, least of all readers of this column. I told you back in January 2012 that President ...

Obama has made relatively few recess appointments, 32 in his four-plus years in office, according to the Congressional Research Service. Bush made 171 such appointments, and President Bill Clinton ...

The U.S. Supreme Court, in a constitutional showdown between the president and the U.S. Senate, ruled President Barack Obama lacked authority to make certain recess appointments while the Senate ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. President Obama, after Senate Republicans blocked his nominations for months, finally took the bull by ...

In a controversial move, US President Barack Obama yesterday appointed Richard Cordray as the director of the newly formed Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. "It's worth noting that the basic ...

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President Obama announced that he is using a recess appointment to name Richard Cordray as the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The announcement came during a speech on the ...