United States v. Janssen

Judge STUCKY

delivered the opinion of the Court.

[The President] shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint ... all other Officers of the United States, whose Appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by Law: but the Congress may by Law vest the Appointment of such inferior Officers, as they think proper, in the President alone, in the Courts of Law, or in the Heads of Departments.

U.S. Const, art. II, § 2, cl. 2.

[T]he Appointments Clause of Article II is more than a matter of “etiquette or protocol”; it is among…