I NEVER can remember how to spell stylin’s name or I’d put in the To box.
Stylin, if you see this, I’m replying to a comment you made that I can’t find; that when the Congress convenes they can undo Trump’s appointments.
My response is that in the interim, when the Military action and arrests described in the early Q drops occur, a considerable number of the Congressmaggots will not be holding their seats any more, both houses. Epsein’s and Diddy lists will take some out, treason others.
My understanding is that recess appointments only last until the end of the next Senate session. When Obama used recess appointments to make the National Labor Relations Board function, he was sued, and the Supreme Court ruled that it takes at least a ten day recess to justify a recess appointment.
So Senators no longer take long recesses. The last ten-day recess they adjourned for was in 2016, according to records kept by the Senate Historical Office. Instead, they take short breaks, and a single senator enters the chamber every few days for a “pro forma” session during which no business is conducted. If President Trump were to try to fill his Cabinet using recess appointments, many would consider it an abdication of the responsibilities of the Senate and a lawsuit would surely follow from the litigious Democrats. We don’t know how a conservative Supreme Court might react to an effort to fill the Cabinet in a manufactured recess.
The Article II, Section 3, exception may be usable if Speaker Johnson can get the House to pass an adjournment resolution and the Senate doesn’t agree to it. PDJT could then adjourn the Senate for ten days to ram through a Cabinet, but Johnson would need every House Republican to go along with him in a quest to declare parliamentary war on a Republican-controlled, but hostile, Senate. I’m not sure whether Johnson is willing to spend political capital on such a manoeuvre, and even less sure about how it would turn out.
A President has never in US history tried to adjourn the House and Senate using this authority. The Senate Historical Office recently stated that it was not aware of a serious discussion about using this particular clause in the Constitution since the 1930s. Conservative legal expert, Edward Whelan, has written about the idea in The Washington Post and is encouraging Johnson to shoot it down.
If nothing else, we’re all getting an up-close lesson in the application of the United States Constitution to real life politics. I find it fascinating.
little jeremiah wrote:
“...when the Military action and arrests described in the early Q drops occur, a considerable number of the Congressmaggots will not be holding their seats any more, both houses. Epsein’s and Diddy lists will take some out, treason others.”
YES. The president doesn’t seem too worried about appointments costing seats so maybe it’s part of the plan. With gold bar Bob leading the way, their crimes are catching up to them fast. I’m still holding out hope that some like Gowdy, being former military, might get to sit as judges on the Tribunals.
Can you imagine how satisfying that would be after being thwarted for all those years. Sweet revenge, served cold.
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