[Sopater]

Does anybody have a running tally on the number of recess appts each president has made?

[BenLurkin]

[Nachum]

The list, ping

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[CharlesWayneCT]

I'm a little confused about this, because I thought recess appointments only lasted until the end of the current senate term -- but that would be January 3rd, so what would the point be?

The President shall have Power to fill up all Vacancies that may happen during the Recess of the Senate, by granting Commissions which shall expire at the End of their next Session.

I guess "end of their next session" is interpreted as being the session FOLLOWING their current one, but I was certain that a recess appointment made in the summer would end on January 3rd.

Of course, I think it's pretty clear that the recess appointment clause only allows appointments for openings which OCCUR during recess. I don't know why the supreme court ever allowed recess appointments for vacancies where the senate simply refused to act.

[screaminsunshine]

Probably another card carrier.

[sergeantdave]

“Republican senators also quibbled...”

And I have quibbles over whether “The Hill” is a communist propaganda sheet.

[smokingfrog]

If Cole is confirmed, then he will enter an office that must tackle some of the thorniest political issues currently facing the country: how to properly close Guantanamo Bay detention center and whether to try 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM) in a civilian court. One possible confirmation hurdle is work as a government-appointed attorney monitoring insurance giant AIG's business practices starting in 2004. AIG paid his firm roughly $20 million for his work as an "independent consultant."Lattman, Peter, "The U.S.'s Fly on the Wall at AIG," Wall Street Journal, March 27, 2009

James M. Cole