Editorial: Trump's troubling preference for 'acting' appointees
by The Times Editorial Board, Los Angeles Times
Sep 09, 2020
3 minutes
President Donald Trump has flouted so many constitutional norms that it's hard to keep up with them. But one of his most flagrant violations has been his end run around the Constitution's requirement that important appointments be made with the "advice and consent" of the Senate.
In defending that provision in the Constitution, Alexander Hamilton wrote in the Federalist Papers that the requirement of Senate confirmation would be "an excellent check upon a spirit of favoritism in the president, and would
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