Will Obama’s Recess Appointments Erode Constitutional Checks and Balances?

By Mark Hemingway
Published January 12, 2012 5:15pm ET
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Will Obama’s Recess Appointments Erode Constitutional Checks and Balances?
Over at The Washington Examiner, Stephanie Hessler, an adjunct fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a former constitutional lawyer for the Senate Judiciary Committee, examines Obama’s recent recess appointments. The appointments have been controversial because they didn’t occur when the Senate was in recess. Hessler concludes that the appointments are unconstitutional and threaten to erode […]

Over at The Washington Examiner, Stephanie Hessler, an adjunct fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a former constitutional lawyer for the Senate Judiciary Committee, examines Obama’s recent recess appointments. The appointments have been controversial because they didn’t occur when the Senate was in recess. Hessler concludes that the appointments are unconstitutional and threaten to erode the checks and balances between the executive branch and the legislature: 

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