The President-elect may appoint extreme cabinet members without congressional scrutiny, writes Sen. Chris Coons.

As the Trump-Vance administration shapes up and selects its Cabinet and advisers, the looming Senate confirmation process, ...

For all the drama generated every four years by Cabinet appointments, defeat of a nominee by a vote in the Senate is ...

With some of President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet and other presumptive nominees facing an uncertain path to confirmation, ...

President-elect Donald Trump has said he may use temporary recess appointments to bypass the Senate confirmation process for ...

With congressional Republican leadership on board and a mandate-level victory in the presidential election, recess ...

President-elect Donald Trump’s intent to nominate loyalists to fill key Cabinet posts has set up a possible confrontation ...

The use of recess appointments to install members of Donald Trump's Cabinet would circumvent a key Senate process, ...

The Supreme Court could easily strike down President-elect Donald Trump's cabinet picks if he tries to kneecap the Senate ...

The Trump transition team is proposing that the president-elect forgo the regular advice-and-consent process and use his ...

The recess appointments power "was built for a time when the Senate was not meeting year round," says Casey Burgat, the director of the Legislative Affairs Program at George Washington University ...