Looking at the Heritage Foundation and who do I see? #PeteHegseth, #SamuelAlito, white supremacist oaf #TomHoman, #TulsiGabbard, Rep. ScottPerry, Gov. #KimReynolds, #RileyGaines (some whinging knobhead TERF), country musician #JohnRich (whomever the fuck that is!), some ghoul grinning like a hyena claiming Trump can utilise #RecessAppointments, etc.
I can't actually watch the videos yet. My stomach is feeling sick already.
“Trump’s demand for recess appointments is a way of breaking the Senate early on. Once they’ve bypassed the Constitutional dictate that they confirm the president’s appointees, there is no standing on principle to insist on strict adherence to the Constitution. It’s all a negotiation, with the rule of law up for grabs.“
#Politics #USPolitics #Election2024 #USConstitution #AdviseAndConsent #RecessAppointments #RuleOfLawThreatened #USSenate
https://joycevance.substack.com/p/what-letting-trump-use-recess-appointments?action=share
With President-elect Donald Trump’s slate of extreme or controversial nominees has come the question about whether even a Republican-controlled Senate will actually confirm them all. But @Vox warns Trump may be planning a power grab that would skip the normal confirmation process.
An explainer on "recess appointments": https://flip.it/LdwZ2k
#Trump #Cabinet #RecessAppointments #USPolitics #Politics #Senate #Constitution
"#Trump wants Republicans to...use a special procedure called #RecessAppointments that would allow him to install Cabinet appointees and even a Supreme Court justice without a single vote....Trump's push for broad recess appointment power could allow him to disregard the process entirely — meaning that any more than 1,200 positions requiring Senate confirmation could be filled without even an FBI background check or a confirmation hearing."
#USpol Business Insider https://www.yahoo.com/news/why-trump-elon-musk-want-110301770.html
These are precisely the sort of moves that authoritarian leaders make to sidestep political accountability and safe-guards. If the GOP goes along with sucha ploy, they will go down in the history books as the party that killed democracy. #politics #ruleoflaw #Trump #recessappointments
https://www.vox.com/politics/385884/trump-recess-appointments-cabinet-adjourn-senate-ed-whelan
It sounds like Thune is open to recess appointments but not set on them yet. https://www.argusleader.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/11/13/south-dakota-senator-john-thune-says-recess-appointments-still-an-option-for-trump-cabinet/76265376007/
We can, by contacting our Senators and Representatives demand the full advising and consenting of appointments (and yes, Representatives can add pressure to the Senate to not do recess appointments).
Find yours: https://www.congress.gov/members/find-your-member
#thune #RecessAppointments #senate #senators #PresidentialCabinet #CabinetNominees #USpolitics #AmericanPolitics #USpol #politics #AdviseAndConsent
From @BrennanCenter : "Presidents of both parties have long chafed at #Senate obstruction. But the Supreme Court unanimously curbed the power to make #RecessAppointments in 2014. If the Senate goes along with #Trump’s demand, it will be the first loud sound of the #Constitution ripping."
@anildash
#republicans throwing "... sand in the gears..." . It's a win win win for the gop.
When will #democrats learn and adapt? #recessappointments
