WTH is Trump Trying to Recess Appoint Cabinet Members? John Yoo Explains

Many of President-elect Donald Trump’s announced cabinet nominees
are well respected and will likely have an easy path to Senate
approval. Others, not so much. So Trump has proposed doing
something no president has ever done before: Skirting the Senate
approval process altogether via recess appointments. This
appointment scheme delegitimizes Trump’s cabinet picks, sets a
dangerous precedent for future administrations, and is likely
unconstitutional.


John Yoo is the Emanuel Heller Professor of Law at the University
of California at Berkeley, a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the
American Enterprise Institute, and a Visiting Fellow at the
Hoover Institution and Stanford University. Yoo was a law clerk
for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, the general council of
the Senate Judiciary Committee, and the former head of the Office
of Legal Counsel in the Justice Department. His most recent book
is The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Supreme Court (Regnery,
2023) with Robert Delahunty.


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