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Are we "one minute to midnight"?
1 posted on 02/14/2016 2:52:28 AM PST by SMGFan
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To: SMGFan

a recess appointment would only last until the end of the senate session. Let him make a recess appointment.


2 posted on 02/14/2016 2:55:33 AM PST by RC one (I will vote for the Republican nominee period. end of story.)
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a recess appointment would only last until the end of the senate session. Let him make a recess appointment.


3 posted on 02/14/2016 2:55:33 AM PST by RC one (I will vote for the Republican nominee period. end of story.)
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a recess appointment would only last until the end of the senate session. Let him make a recess appointment.


4 posted on 02/14/2016 2:55:33 AM PST by RC one (I will vote for the Republican nominee period. end of story.)
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I didn’t click post three times. Not sure what that’s all about.


6 posted on 02/14/2016 2:57:18 AM PST by RC one (I will vote for the Republican nominee period. end of story.)
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I didn’t click post three times. Not sure what that’s all about.


7 posted on 02/14/2016 2:57:18 AM PST by RC one (I will vote for the Republican nominee period. end of story.)
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re convene from what?


9 posted on 02/14/2016 3:02:32 AM PST by This_far
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Is the idiot who wrote this article deaf, dumb and blind?

Doesn’t he know that the Supreme Court is now 100% Obama hacks? The most dangerous thing that can be done to completely remove our freedoms is to reconvene it now without anyone who enforces the rules set forth by the Constitution.

Hold it in limbo until after the election and only then fill the slot.


13 posted on 02/14/2016 3:51:51 AM PST by DH (Once the tainted finger of government touches anything the rot begins)
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The President cannot make a recess appointment to the USSC, not Constitutionally, anyway. The USSC appointments must be confirmed by the Senate. Of course he might just do it and the Republicans in the Senate, being Republicans, might just go along with it. It would not surprise me terribly if he were to remove a justice. Perhaps he just did.
21 posted on 02/14/2016 4:29:29 AM PST by arthurus (Het is waar. Tutti i liberali sono feccia.)
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If Obama pulls a stunt such as a Recess Appointment to replace Scalia, Congress should immediately

Subpoena his Birth Certificate

and check for its validity.

I personally believe it*s a forgery.

23 posted on 02/14/2016 4:33:54 AM PST by FroggyTheGremlim (Hunga Tonga-Hunga.)
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The Senate is in recess. He could appoint someone this morning and that person would be on the court until the end of the session (Jan 2017.)

It is legal. It was last done by Ike.

And you bet Barry is gonna do it.

And there is nothing “we” can do about it.


38 posted on 02/14/2016 5:34:32 AM PST by Vermont Lt
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Now that we have a Monarch with a phone and a pen, the courts are no longer that important.

Separation of powers is no longer possible. We have a benevolent despot.

This makes politics much simpler. For example, if they rule guns should be confiscated, our recourse is to shoot the governing class. Not a problem.


39 posted on 02/14/2016 5:53:42 AM PST by PA-RIVER
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I don’t understand God’s plan here. He took Scalia out during a recess. Maybe it is to force Mcconnells hand and then have a true revolt at voting time.

Or may God is just an Obama loving lib.

Our country is going to hell.


41 posted on 02/14/2016 6:13:06 AM PST by RummyChick
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These idiots in DC will capitulate the country down the river. The Left will put up the most egregious clown they can, and the repbs will allow it to happen, without saying anything.


42 posted on 02/14/2016 6:43:08 AM PST by SERE_DOC ( The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it. T)
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The Jarrett Admin isn’t going to squander a lifetime Cabal pick for a one term recess appointment. Not yet, anyway.

There is no current danger from the Senate being in recess. Later, maybe?

But first, the left and her media sycophants will squeal like stuck pigs to see if they can’t break any resolve not to nominate.

A vote for another Jarrett SC member would make a GOP vote for Obamacare seem like a prudent political position, by comparison. The republican casting that vote better be retiring or changing parties.

The line in the sand is right here.

To quote one of my favorite actors, “This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we’ll be lucky to live through it.”


44 posted on 02/14/2016 7:20:20 AM PST by ziravan (Buck the Establishment.)
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They’re NOT recessed, they’re just adjourned:

“ORDERS FOR MONDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2016, THROUGH MONDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2016

Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that when the
Senate completes its business today, it adjourn, to then convene for
pro forma sessions only, with no business being conducted, on the
following dates and times, and that following each pro forma session,
the Senate adjourn until the next pro forma session: Monday, February
15, at 11 a.m.; Thursday, February 18, at 9 a.m.; I further ask that
when the Senate adjourns on Thursday, February 18, it next convene at 3
p.m., Monday, February 22,”

https://www.congress.gov/congressional-record/2016/2/12/senate-section/article/S887-4


51 posted on 02/14/2016 10:15:26 AM PST by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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Whatever needs to be done to prevent a recess appointment is necessary, but I bet he makes the appointment early tomorrow morning. He plays hardball and won’t miss this opportunity.


53 posted on 02/14/2016 11:26:35 AM PST by wildbill (If you check behind the shower curtain fInor a murder, and find one.... what's your plan?)
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