A blog set up to provide reading, video and audio material for students studying AS and A-Level Politics at Alleyn's School.

Wednesday 15 January 2014

Powers of Congress vs Powers of the President: Supreme Court considers the definition of 'recess appointments'



Can the president bypass the Senate in making temporary appointments? Gwen Ifill talks to Marcia Coyle of the National Law Journal about how a local labor dispute transformed into a debate of presidential power and the Supreme Court's first time considering the Constitution's recess appointments clause.