Recess appointments and an independent judiciary.

Presidents Clinton and Bush have revived a quiescent executive power, that of reces appointments to the bench. In the last not many days of his presidency Mr Clinton made single such appointment. Following suit, Mr Bush has now made sum of two units All three appointments were of presidential nominees for whom Senate confirmation, either up or down, had been forestalled by means of parliamentary moves. For both Presidents the attractive feature of a reces appointment was that it placed their nominees upon the bench without Senate confirmation. on the other hand because of this by-pass these appointments have been questioned, upon political and constitutional grounds. This article is