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

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 plain meaning of the recess appointments clause is obvious.

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

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