“Senate trade-off: More Obama judges, Trump gets nominees.” Mary Clare Jalonick of The Associated Press has an article that begins, “Republicans are gleeful over Democratic-engineered rule changes that will make it easier for President-elect Donald Trump to get his Cabinet nominees through the Senate. Yet Democrats see a lasting upside from what they did: allowing President Barack Obama to shape the federal judiciary for years to come.”

“Does the Constitution put limits on a president’s private business ties?” Lyle Denniston has this post today at the “Constitution Daily” blog of the National Constitution Center.