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Monday, January 9, 2012

Could A Recess Appointment Be Made Over Night Or On A Weekend?

Senator Chuck Grassley is asking the Justice Department for its legal opinion on the four recess appointments made by Obama. In a letter to Eric Holder Grassley opines;

"The Justice Department and the White House owe it to the American people to provide a clear understanding of the process that transpired and the rationale it used to circumvent the checks and balances promised by the Constitution," Grassley, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said in a statement announcing the letter. "Overturning 90 years of historical precedent is a major shift in policy that should not be done in a legal opinion made behind closed doors, hidden from public scrutiny."

Continuing Grassley asked whether recess appointments overnight and on the weekend are possible after the president's decision this week to appoint four federal officials despite pro forma sessions by Congress.

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