Charles Cooper: “I believe that President Obama has, indeed, violated the Constitution with these appointments.”

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…

I would have advised the president to remain carefully and strictly within the bounds of his constitutional authority.

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.

The plain meaning of the recess appointments clause is obvious.