Charles Cooper: “The plain meaning of the recess appointments clause is obvious.”

Much of the problem in this area has been Congress' inability really to focus and answer difficult political public policy questions.

There is no support for a reading of the Constitution that unnecessarily restricts the political arrangements available to the President and Congress in fashioning binding consensual solutions to the Nation's relations with the people of…

The President's January 4 recess appointments, in truth, had nothing to do with whether the Senate was available to act, and everything to do with the Senate's unwillingness to confirm the President's nominees.

This idea that it is the President that has to be satisfied that you are in session is a very dangerous notion.