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Also regarding the recent recess appointments.
The situation appears to be that Republicans were blocking the appointment on ideological grounds, where they opposed the laws the appointment was intended to oversee. Without the appointment that area of government would cease to function.
If anything it looks like Republicans were intentionally impeding the President's Constitutional authority to execute existing US law.
Perhaps the real question here is if a pro forma recess is really a recess? I don't think the Constitution is really clear here. It doesn't seem to pass the smell test regardless of who's doing it.
-spence
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