OK, ever have a great DREAM and then you wake up and try to get back to sleep fast so you can continue it and then the bad one nails you??
Here is the followup bad dream:
Obama loses the election but Justice Kennedy has a heart attack at the end of November so then Obama claims that to save the country he will recess appointment himself to that lifetime position and will be deemed resigned by doing it.
The Republicans challenge it in the courts and it reaches the SCOTUS and they rule it was FULLY constitutional 5-4 with Obama making the deciding vote,
Sorry, I couldn't resist. You know he is too principled to try something sleezy like that... well isn't he??? Stop looking at me that way...
:)
” The Republicans challenge it in the courts”
LOL....they don’t do anything but collect a paycheck : )
“You talkin to me? “
: )
>Obama loses the election but Justice Kennedy has a heart attack at the end of November so then Obama claims that to save the country he will recess appointment himself to that lifetime position and will be deemed resigned by doing it.
At that point I think all but the most brainwashed would say “What the hell!?”
Or at least I hope they would.
Funny but a SCOTUS recess appointment would expire just like any other. He’d have a year tops. And if it’s a Republican Congress in 2013 I think it could immediately adjourn thus ending the appointment.
I don’t know about the constitutionality of him appointing himself but he could resign and have Biden appoint him and unfortunately that would be constitutional