Appointments, recess

The second clause of the second section of the second article empowers the President of the United States to nominate, and by and with the advice and consent of the Senate to appoint ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls, judges of the Supreme Court, and all other officers of the United States, whose appointments are not in the Constitution otherrmse provided for, and which shall be established by law. Immediately after this clause follows another in these words — The President shall have power to fill up all vacancies that may happen during the recess of the Senate, by granting commissions which shall expire at the end of their next session. It is from this last provision that the pretended... 

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