At this event, four distinguished lawyers who have significant experience both in government and constitutional law will discuss the key constitutional issues that are essential to understand in this controversy, the precedents from similar disputes in the past, and the implications for the future if either the president’s position or the opponents' position is ultimately upheld by the courts.

President Obama’s scorn for the Constitution has been expressed most recently in his "recess" appointments of members of the National Labor Relations Board and the chairmanship of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

The new government in Yemen has extracted several of former President Ali Abdullah Saleh’s cronies from the country’s power structure, including demotion of Saleh’s half-brother Mohammed al Ahmar and nephew Tareq Mohammed Saleh, the former heads of the Air Force and Presidential Guard, respectively.

In recent years the presidential appointments process has become increasingly complicated. A nominee faces many obstacles on the path to confirmation. The distinguished panel will discuss the arduous nature of today's presidential appointments process and will be followed by the unveiling of a new computer software package developed to...

The tension between Congress and the president is palpable, and nowhere is that more true than in the controversy over recess appointments.

The entire Republican presidential candidate field has shared one common defect from the start; none of them talk with any serious depth about what used to be close to the center of many presidential campaigns in times of tumult: how we should interpret the Constitution.

Like all our political institutions, the presidency has evolved with the growth of the nation and the pace of change in the modern world. Three key changes come to mind.

The impetus for abolishing gubernatorial appointments to fill Senate vacancies is understandable, but getting rid of these appointments has its own set of problems.