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Anne Kim and Garrett Epps
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.
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 the Crisis of Disconnection, winner of the 2020 Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice. Anne is on Bluesky @anne-s-kim.bsky.social.
More by Anne KimGarrett Epps is the legal affairs editor at the Washington Monthly.
Garrett is on Bluesky @garrettepps.bsky.social.
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