Charles Cooper: “much of the problem in this area has been Congress' inability really to focus and answer difficult political public…”

We shouldn't allow dysfunctional politics to justify dysfunctional constitutional measures.

The plain meaning of the recess appointments clause is obvious.

I think that the real factual circumstances behind some of these appointments are much more egregious than you have outlined.

It is Congress's responsibility, its constitutional responsibility, to resist this constitutional excess of his authority.