Sentence examples for make appointments during from inspiring English sources

The case involves the president's constitutional power to make appointments "during the recess of the Senate," as President Obama arguably did in January 2012, when he appointed three members to the N.L.R.B.

In June 1999, President Bill Clinton named Mr. Hormel to the Luxembourg post, sidestepping the Senate by using his authority to make appointments during a Congressional recess.

By using his power to make appointments during congressional recesses to name Roger Gregory to the appeals court, Mr. Clinton was able to bypass the Senate confirmation process temporarily.

A Justice Department brief from 1993 argues that the president can certainly make appointments during recesses of three days or longer; shorter than that and "a closer question" is raised.

In using a president's power to make appointments during Congressional recesses to fill vacancies, Mr. Bush was able to skirt the Senate confirmation process, which Democrats have used for three years to block not only the Pickering nomination but also those of several other Bush judicial nominees.

President Bush used his power to make appointments during Congressional recesses today to name a young black lawyer who is a vocal critic of preferences for minorities to be head of the Office of Civil Rights in the Department of Education.

"It's tough making appointments during regular business hours," said Mr. Bradley, who lives nearby.

The Obama administration points out that presidents for more than a century have made appointments during breaks when Congress was out of town.

Asked if she would assign her husband, former President Bill Clinton, who remains popular here, to serve as a special envoy to the region, Mrs. Clinton demurred, saying she was not making appointments during the campaign.

After looking at the history of presidential recess appointments, and finding only a few "anomalies" where chief executives made appointments during short Senate breaks of 8 or 9 days, the majority settled on a number: We conclude, in light of historical practice, that a recess of more than 3 days but less than 10 days is presumptively too short to fall within the Clause.

There was no suggestion that the President's or Senate's responsibilities were suspended pending the election; in fact, former President (and future Chief Justice) William Howard Taft wrote Hughes that, with his resignation, the Republicans would be sacrificing a Court seat to prevent Wilson from making appointments during a second term that would further damage the Court.