The U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel recently issued a 23-page opinion on the legality of the recess appointment President Barack Obama made of Richard Cordray as director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, as well as three officials to the National Labor Relations Board, as an end run around the pro-forma sessions Republican opponents had used to block the appointments. The memo takes on added significance in light of increasing calls from the president’s allies that he make a similar appointment to dislodge Edward DeMarco as the acting head of the ...