Government of The One: Recess Appointments Violate Constitution

20-Feb-2012 | By Senator Mike Lee (R-UT)

On January 4th, President Obama chose to exercise unprecedented power by making four federal appointments when the Senate was not in recess and had not given its consent. No other president had ever taken this kind of action because each of them understood that this unilateral power did not belong to the executive branch of the federal government. This president, on the other hand, decided to ignore nearly 100 years of Senate procedure and the Constitution itself.

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