The Supreme Court stepped into an important constitutional dispute Monday between President Obama and congressional Republicans over the chief executive's power to make recess appointments. The ...

WASHINGTON — Republicans and business groups told a federal appeals court Wednesday that President Barack Obama violated the Constitution earlier this year when he bypassed the Senate to fill ...

The National Right to Work Foundation filed a motion Friday that challenges the legality of President Obama’s recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). The motion, filed in the ...

Republican senators announced Friday that they plan to challenge President Obama’s recent controversial appointments in court. Thirty-nine GOP senators have signed onto a letter announcing their ...

A federal district court judge today rejected attempts by several business groups to challenge President Obama's recent recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). As we recently ...

The D.C. federal district court has rejected the plaintiffs’ attempt in State National Bank of Big Spring, Texas, et al. v. Lew, et al. to invalidate the actions taken by Director Cordray while he was ...

Congressional Republicans were shocked, shocked, when President Obama circumvented a Senate filibuster by appointing a director for the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau without the consent of ...

The first legal challenge to President Obama's controversial recess appointments flopped today, when a federal judge tossed it out on procedural grounds. A business group, the National Association of ...

WASHINGTONWASHINGTON — Two pro-business advocacy groups on Friday filed the first legal challenge to President Barack Obama’s recent recess appointments, asking a federal judge to find them ...

"The President shall have Power to fill up all Vacancies that may happen during the Recess of the Senate, by granting Commissions which shall expire at the End of their next Session." – Article II, ...

Constitutional arguments that seem as dry as dust can have momentous consequences. On Monday, the Supreme Court's nine fine minds will hear oral arguments about the meaning of "the" and "happen." What ...