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To: inkling

RECESS APPOINTMENT OF ALITO

Can you recess appoint a Justice of the SCOTUS?

502 posted on 11/01/2005 12:36:48 PM PST by dawn53

To: dawn53

yes.

509 posted on 11/01/2005 12:37:47 PM PST by hobbes1 (Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "I know everything so you dont have to...." ;)

To: dawn53

Can you recess appoint a Justice of the SCOTUS?

Sure. But doing so has some political fallout. IIRC, Washington did so.

Supreme Court Nominations Not Confirmed, 1789-2004
http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/RL31171.pdf

586 posted on 11/01/2005 12:46:40 PM PST by Cboldt

To: dawn53

yes recess appointments have been done in the past

781 posted on 11/01/2005 1:13:44 PM PST by stocksthatgoup (Polls = Proof that when the MSM want yo"ur opinion they will give it to you.)

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