Posted on 07/28/2025 7:21:25 AM PDT by Red Badger
Chuck Grassley, the very powerful Senate Judiciary Chairman, responded to President Trump’s call to cancel the August recess.
President Trump last Saturday evening called on Senate Majority Leader John Thune to cancel the August recess to get his judicial nominees confirmed.
Trump called on Thune to work through August to confirm the backlog of judicial nominees.
“Hopefully the very talented John Thune, fresh off our many victories over the past two weeks and, indeed, 6 months, will cancel August recess (and long weekends!), in order to get my incredible nominees confirmed. We need them badly!!! DJT” Trump said last Saturday evening.
On Sunday, Grassley said he is “with” Trump and is willing to work through the August recess to confirm the president’s judicial nominees since the Democrats are stonewalling.
Grassley has pushed a few of Trump’s high-profile nominees through the Senate Judiciary Committee but there is still a backlog of 135 nominees.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune has not fully committed to canceling the August recess but he is thinking about it since the Democrats are obstructing Trump’s agenda.
Last Monday, Thune told reporters that he’s thinking about canceling the August recess.
“We’re thinking about it. We want to get as many nominees through the pipeline as we can,” Thune said.
“we’re going to be looking at all the options in the next weeks to try and get as many of those across the finish line as we can,” he said.
“This is the first president in history who has never had, at this point in his presidency, a civilian nominee approved either by unanimous consent or voice vote in the Senate,” Thune said last Thursday during an interview on the “Brian Kilmeade Show” on Fox News Radio, Fox reported.
“As we head into the August break we need to get a whole bunch more confirmed, and we intend to do that,” he said.
“Because of the way the Democrats are playing in their Trump Derangement Syndrome, they’re putting up an unprecedented level of obstruction,” Thune added. “I think the only way to beat that is to just grind them down.”
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Scumbags are there forever, Trump not so much:-(
This back stabbing POS knows full well Trump could get all his nominations in through Recess appointments and yet won’t truly recess the Senate. Why?
We’re thinking about it
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We don’t pay you to think ya layabout.
We pay you to DO.
GET OFF YOUR ASS AND DO IT.
What is another word for layabout?
idler loafer
lounger slacker
skiver drone
slug slouch
deadbeat laggard
gold bricker
Sandbagger
Thune
Both House and Senate, regardless of party, are loathe to give any power up back to the Executive Branch.
They would miss TV facetime and not get to grandstand for their voters to see them ‘fighting’ for them.
This is the way it’s been ever since the invention of television. We have government via ‘soundbite’.
In the pre-TV and Radio days, they didn’t even bother to have nomination hearings. The new POTUS would just send a list of nominees via letter to the Senate and they would vote on it and it usually passed.................
He’s got corn to pick
Hot dogs to eat, hands to shake and babies to kiss....................
This back stabbing POS knows full well Trump could get all his nominations in through Recess appointments and yet won’t truly recess the Senate. Why?
Recess appointments are not permanent appointments. You need permanent appointments for judges so they will have the right to serve for a lifetime.
True they are not permanent, but you start pursuing making them permanent after the Senate reconvenes. In the meantime Trump has everyone in place pushing his agenda.
My question is who picked Trump’s picks?
That is what kept Obama from stacking things. Recall that Obama then unilaterally declared that the Senate was in recess, and recess-appointed members of the NLRB. McConnell sued and this went all the way to the Supreme Court to affirm the fact that the President cannot declare the Senate to be in recess - the NLRB appointments and everything the NLRB did from the time of the appointments was declared illegal, null and void. Literal dictatorship in the making there - Obama tried to take on dictatorial powers over another branch of government and the media could not have cared less.
These people never did work at all. They don’t need vacations.
August Recess from what chair warming ?.
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