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No. of Recommendations: 12
President-elect Donald Trump and his allies signaled Sunday that they will try to call the shots in the Republican-led Senate, pushing the candidacy of Sen. Rick Scott (Florida) for GOP leader and demanding that Republicans allow Trump to make appointments to his administration and the courts without Senate approvalhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/11/10...I hope the Senate Republicans will respond by telling Trump they have no intention of dropping their responsibility for approving key posts.
But that would be a pipe dream, wouldn’t it?
Nope.
Congrssional Republicans have completely abandoned checks and balances as an operative way of governing.
Instead we shall witness complete capitulation.
“Thank you, sir! May I have some more?”
No. of Recommendations: 0
Why not go after John Letterman next time around?
Kinda like the Left did Sinema and Manchin?
It's great now isn't it.
BAAAAAAAAAAA
No. of Recommendations: 2
As he should. Why, you ask?
Because the voters voted for Trump's policies. Not the Establishment GOP stuff.
Rick Scott will shepherd things through the way they should be.
Put it another way: the democrats want Cornyn. That tells you right off who SHOULDN'T be Senate Majority Leader.
No. of Recommendations: 2
President-elect Donald Trump and his allies signaled Sunday that they will try to call the shots in the Republican-led Senate, pushing the candidacy of Sen. Rick Scott (Florida) for GOP leader and demanding that Republicans allow Trump to make appointments to his administration and the courts without Senate approval
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Liberal Spin. What Trump is talking about is recess appointments, a legal process that has been used before
A recess appointment under Article II, Section 2, Clause 3 of the Constitution is an alternative method of appointing officials that allows the temporary filling of offices during periods when the Senate is not in session.
The Dems of course want to prevent the will of the people being respected by preventing Trump from assembling his team for as long as possible.
No. of Recommendations: 1
Liberal Spin. What Trump is talking about is recess appointments, a legal process that has been used before
Trump also said he wouldn't do that for judges, as he CLEARLY doesn't want the precedent set that say, a Senator Majority Leader AOC would appoint somebody to the Supreme Court during Christmas break.
No. of Recommendations: 13
As he should. Why, you ask?
So you’re in favor of Trump filling key administrative/cabinet positions and federal judgeships without “advice and consent” of Congress?
Because that’s exactly the authority he will be asking the Senate to give him.
No. of Recommendations: 3
So you’re in favor of Trump filling key administrative/cabinet positions and federal judgeships without “advice and consent” of Congress?
Because that’s exactly the authority he will be asking the Senate to give him.
No, it isn't. Once again the vaunted liberal media has let you down.
He wants recess appointments so he can get people in place so as to get them started, and not have this massive backlog of positions to fill because the democrats won't let him put people in place.
You know. Like last time.
On judges he specifically said NO to that. Why give democrats the precedent?
No. of Recommendations: 3
So you’re in favor of Trump filling key administrative/cabinet positions and federal judgeships without “advice and consent” of Congress?
Because that’s exactly the authority he will be asking the Senate to give him.
If I didn't know better, I'd say that smacks of dictatorship. But I do know better, because a few people have assured us that he doesn't really want to be a dictator and that our systems would never allow it.
No. of Recommendations: 9
He wants recess appointments so he can get people in place so as to get them started, and not have this massive backlog of positions to fill because the democrats won't let him put people in place.
Let's keep track of something, you and I. IF Senate Republicans willingly cede their authority to Trump..........
Going forward, what percentage of appointments will go through the normal Congressional Approval process?
And what percentage of appointments will simply be made by Trump during Congressional recesses?
How often will the Republican Senate Majority leader call for an unscheduled recess so Trump can appoint a bunch of folks without having to bother with advise&consent?
You don't have to answer. Just think about the issue in your own mind. It might be worthwhile for both of us to revisit this issue in four years.
No. of Recommendations: 0
This is all natural progression.
Be glad you even have a Senate.
No. of Recommendations: 2
Going forward, what percentage of appointments will go through the normal Congressional Approval process?
And what percentage of appointments will simply be made by Trump during Congressional recesses?
I don't think that's a very useful metric, though. The GOP has 53 seats in the Senate and the tie-breaker. Few nominees will have trouble getting through the regular appointment process - and nearly all the nominees that Trump will appoint (in sheer numbers) will be appointed in the first few months of his Administration as he staffs the government.
The recess appointment used to be regularly, but not frequently, used back in the day. It's a fairly recent phenomenon that the the Senate started doing pro forma sessions during the times it would normally be in recess, in order to completely block recess appointments. The Obama Administration was quite upset by what they saw as a Congressional usurpation of Executive Power (recess appointments are specifically enumerated in the Constitution), and they took it all the way to the Supreme Court, but SCOTUS held that Congress had the power to do that. And that ordinary political give-and-take between the Executive and Legislative branches was available to the President if he wanted them to stop doing the pro forma sessions.
We'll soon see whether Trump is genuinely trying to avoid A&C altogether for any tough nomination - or whether he's just pushing back against the "pretextual" use of pro forma sessions for no purpose other than to block the "normal" recess appointments that used to take place regularly. But I don't think percentage of appointments will tell us that. Rather, we'll see whether Congress deliberately recesses at a novel time, just to create a recess for Trump to take advantage of.
No. of Recommendations: 3
Any recess appointments would be news. The last successful recess appointment was 14 years ago when Obama recess appointed 3 Ambassadors and a Deputy Attorney General on December 29, 2010. Trump and Biden made zero recess appointments. In the 2014 case NLRB v. Noel Canning, Justice Scalia found "the recess appointment power is an anachronism". Recess appointments belong in the horse and buggy age. Today, the Senate is able to act on short notice if it decides to do so.
A recess appointment of Kennedy who will go wild on the U.S. healthcare system would be a win-win-lose. Senators don't have to go on the record voting for this loose cannon, and there's a distraction while Trump recess appoints generals to find the enemies within, followed by retribution and rigged elections.
