Sentences with phrase «recess appointment power»

The department also takes issue with the part of the Noel Canning opinion that restricts recess appointment power to vacancies that arise during a recess, not those that existed at the time of a recess.

Top DOJ officials have until March 8 to decide whether to ask the U.S. Court of Appeals to reconsider its conclusion that Obama overstepped his authority last year when he used his recess appointment power to install three members on the National Labor Relations Board.

«The real threat to the separation of powers comes from Noel Canning, because it would seemingly allow the Senate to eliminate the President's recess appointment power» by turning all recesses into intrasession ones, DOJ's legal team said.

That interpretation narrows the scope of when a president can use the recess appointment power.

(The D.C. Circuit ruling limits recess appointment power to intersessions — the time between two sessions of Congress.)

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... National Labour Relations Board (NLRB) v Canning, which concerns the scope of the president's power to make «recess appointments».

If the President has the power of recess appointments, but the Senate never adjourns, it effectively kills that power.

Since the minority party has not very little power in Washington, why use recess appointments to essentially fix what is one of the few political weapons, Republican obstruction, the administration has going into the 2010 elections?