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Ep. 1: Trump's Dangerous Plan for Recess Appointments
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President-elect Donald Trump says he wants to install his Cabinet without Senate confirmation. That would violate the Constitution, says NYU law professor Peter Shane. Shane talks with hosts Anne Kim and Garrett Epps about the history and legality of recess appointments.

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Anne Kim is a Senior Editor at Washington Monthly and the author of Poverty for Profit: How Corporations Get Rich Off America’s Poor (New Press, 2024). Anne is also a Senior Fellow at FutureEd and the author of Abandoned: America’s Lost Youth and...

Garrett Epps is the legal affairs editor at the Washington Monthly. Garrett is on Bluesky @garrettepps.bsky.social‬.