Commonwealth v. Rivers, R.

How courts have described this case

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• deciding whether the appointment of the Board's members without Senate confirmation violated the Appointments Clause, U.S. Const. Art. II, § 2, cl. 2
• upholding the constitutionality of the appointment process for the Board's members
• first citing Am. Ins. Co. v. 356 Bales of Cotton, 26 U.S. 511, 546 (1828); then citing Palmore v. United States, 411 U.S. 389, 407 (1973)
• “[T]he Appointments Clause helps to preserve democratic accountability.”

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