{"id":4301,"date":"2011-08-05T15:51:12","date_gmt":"2011-08-05T21:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=4301"},"modified":"2011-08-05T21:11:55","modified_gmt":"2011-08-06T03:11:55","slug":"recess-appointments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=4301","title":{"rendered":"Judicial Recess Appointments?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One might wonder if the Senate Judiciary Committee is daring\u00a0the Obama Administration to make some\u00a0judicial recess appointments (or complicit in\u00a0the Obama Administration\u00a0doing so).\u00a0 On its website, the Senate Judiciary Committee currently\u00a0has this post:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Did You Know?<\/strong> President Eisenhower&#8217;s appointment of <a href=\"javascript:HandleLink('cpe_1415_0','CPNEWWIN:NewWindow^top=10,left=10,width=700,height=700,toolbar=1,location=1,directories=0,status=1,menubar=1,scrollbars=1,resizable=1@http:\/\/www.supremecourthistory.org\/history-of-the-court\/associate-justices\/potter-stewart-1958-1981\/');\">Potter Stewart<\/a> to the Supreme Court in 1958 was the last recess appointment to the Supreme Court under <a href=\"javascript:HandleLink('cpe_1415_0','CPNEWWIN:NewWindow^top=10,left=10,width=700,height=700,toolbar=1,location=1,directories=0,status=1,menubar=1,scrollbars=1,resizable=1@http:\/\/www.house.gov\/house\/Constitution\/Constitution.html');\">Article II, Section 2, Clause 3<\/a>, of the Constitution. In 1960, the Senate passed a resolution &#8211; which had no legally binding effect &#8211; expressing the Senate&#8217;s objection to recess appointments to the Supreme Court.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>With two circuit court (Seventh Circuit and Federal Circuit)\u00a0nominees still waiting for a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee after more than a year of initially being nominated (while\u00a0subsequent circuit court nominees have received hearings within a month of being nominated), one might argue that the Senate has had\u00a0a fair opportunity\u00a0to advise\u00a0the President and chosen not to exercise it.<\/p>\n<p>Here is an article on judicial recess appointments: [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fed-soc.org\/doclib\/20070325_recapp.pdf\">Article<\/a>].\u00a0 According to the article, judicial recess appointments were most recently used by Presidents Carter and Clinton.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Update<\/span>: The article linked to\u00a0above was written before the end of the Bush Administration.\u00a0 President Bush made two judicial recess appointments at the circuit court level.<\/p>\n<p>According to some accounts, the Senate is not currently\u00a0in &#8220;recess&#8221;\u00a0and\u00a0cannot go into &#8220;recess&#8221; without the permission of the House.\u00a0\u00a0Instead,\u00a0the Senate is currently in &#8220;adjournment.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One might wonder if the Senate Judiciary Committee is daring\u00a0the Obama Administration to make some\u00a0judicial recess appointments (or complicit in\u00a0the Obama Administration\u00a0doing so).\u00a0 On its website, the Senate Judiciary Committee currently\u00a0has this post: Did You Know? 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