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  2. Appointments Clause - Wikipedia

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    The Appointments Clause confers plenary power to the President to nominate, and confers plenary power to the Senate to reject or confirm a nominee, through its advice and consent provision. As with other separation of powers provisions in the Constitution, the wording here seeks to ensure accountability and preempt tyranny. [2]

  3. Recess appointment - Wikipedia

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    In the United States, a recess appointment is an appointment by the president of a federal official when the U.S. Senate is in recess.Under the U.S. Constitution's Appointments Clause, the president is empowered to nominate, and with the advice and consent (confirmation) of the Senate, make appointments to high-level policy-making positions in federal departments, agencies, boards, and ...

  4. List of clauses of the United States Constitution - Wikipedia

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    The United States Constitution and its amendments comprise hundreds of clauses which outline the functioning of the United States Federal Government, the political relationship between the states and the national government, and affect how the United States federal court system interprets the law. When a particular clause becomes an important ...

  5. 5 takeaways: Why Trump wants to use 'recess appointments' to ...

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    Recess appointments are written in the Constitution. The Recess Appointments Clause in the U.S. Constitution allows the president to make temporary appointments while the Senate is not in session ...

  6. Nomination and confirmation to the Supreme Court of the ...

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    This clause, commonly known as the Appointments Clause, is one example of the system of checks and balances inherent in the Constitution. The president has the plenary power to nominate and to appoint, while the Senate possesses the plenary power to reject or confirm the nominee prior to their appointment. [2] [3] [4]

  7. Appointments Clause of the United States Constitution

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  8. Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution

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    The amendment supersedes Article I, Section 3, Clauses 1 and 2 of the Constitution, under which senators were elected by state legislatures. It also alters the procedure for filling vacancies in the Senate, allowing for state legislatures to permit their governors to make temporary appointments until a special election can be held.

  9. Here's how 2 sentences in the Constitution rose from ... - AOL

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    The clause's revival is due to an unlikely combination of Democrats and Republicans, liberals and conservatives, all rediscovering 111 words in the nation's foundational legal document that have ...