I know the President has the Constitutional power to call an emergency session of Congress anytime he wants. He can keep them in session until the issue is resolved. I also know that the Vice-president is also president of the Senate and has a vote to break a tie...
Separation of powers does not mean the Senate can shirk their Constitutional duty to vote on a court nominee...
Well, this is good to hear...I just wish Bush would do it...
I found out today on FR another amazing thing that the Senate did yesterday...
They passed the Patriot Act, making changes, but by unanimous consent...they NEVER brought it to the floor to debate...so none of us even knew they were discussing it...let alone passing it without a roll call vote!!!
The House debated it for days on cspan, so we could see what kind of changes they wanted to make....
The big arguement for not renewing it is peoples "civil rights", but what about our rights to know what our congresscritters are doing?
BTW, the Bush is NOT happy with the changes that the Senate made!!! Frist is striking out by letting Specter screw around like a dem.