Charles Cooper: “I think that the real factual circumstances behind some of these appointments are much more egregious than you have…”

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

I think the history of the clause, and the recess appointment clause, makes clear that this was a fundamental check on executive power.

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

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…