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Senate Dem: We’re Trying To Block A Recess Appointment To Replace Sessions
thehill.com ^ | 07/25/17

Posted on 07/25/2017 7:55:02 PM PDT by Helicondelta

Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) said the Senate Judiciary Committee is "exploring" measures that would block President Trump from appointing an acting attorney general to replace Attorney General Jeff Sessions during the August recess, effectively allowing him to circumvent the need for congressional confirmation.

"We're exploring the ways right now," Durbin said on MSNBC's "The Beat with Ari Melber."

The Illinois senator declined to offer further details when Melber pushed how they plan to prevent any attempt of Trump to replace Attorney General Jeff Sessions, adding that he's told Melber "as much as I can tell you at this moment."

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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: democrats; doj; sessions; trump
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To: Helicondelta

If out more than 10 days they can hold pro forma sessions to prevent appointment. Dont know who has to agree but might be enough senators pissed about treatment of Sessions to do it


41 posted on 07/25/2017 8:19:24 PM PDT by RummyChick (can we switch Don,Jr for Prince Kush and his flak jacket. From Yacht Party to Warzone ready to wear.)
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To: Jonny7797

hes the gift that keeps giving...after only 4 months, they got a special counsel investigating the President..even with out a crime being committed!!!....gotta be some kind of record. Its as if the democrats are running the D.O.J.....smh.


42 posted on 07/25/2017 8:21:34 PM PDT by basalt
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To: Jonny7797

It is bold, and I agree that it might not have the intended consequence. I’m not even sure if it’s true, but we’ll see. I’m assuming he knows what he’s doing, and has a plan. But I can’t say I’ve figured it out yet. Trump truly has everyone guessing on this one.


43 posted on 07/25/2017 8:22:24 PM PDT by mbrfl
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To: Helicondelta

Sessions can easily straighten this mess out and undo some of the damage he has caused by the simple act of un-recusing himself so he can take control of the entire Justice Department which is what president Trump hired him to do.

His justification to un-recuse himself is that 9 months of investigations into the accusation of Russian collusion on the part of the president have shown the charges to be false and groundless.

No further explanatiion is necessary.
Do it and let the leftist pigs squeal.


44 posted on 07/25/2017 8:24:14 PM PDT by Vlad The Inhaler (We were Trumpin' before Trumpin' was cool.....)
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To: gibsonguy

“This is 100% about Mueller.”

Exactly. Mueller’s mandate says that he needs to ask the DOJ for approval to expand his investigation beyond Russia.

Rosenstein/Sessions will let Mueller do whatever he wants. That’s why they need to go.


45 posted on 07/25/2017 8:24:38 PM PDT by Helicondelta (Deplorable)
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To: Helicondelta

Of course the dems want to keep Sessions...Sessions isn’t doing anything to their precious Hillary, nor is he protecting Trump from Mueller.


46 posted on 07/25/2017 8:25:04 PM PDT by FrankR (Those who a outraged by laws and rules, are the very ones wanting to break them.)
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To: Nextrush
..."The Democrats want to protect the “conservative” Jeff Sessions.....WOW......"

.... I don't think they are talking about "Protecting " Sessions as much as they are talking about ...... When he is forced to resign and step down ..... They will be able to block whomever the President wants to put in as his replacement .... and then force a more suitable and desirable person to suit their needs to be inserted into the position of Attorney General.

47 posted on 07/25/2017 8:25:49 PM PDT by R_Kangel ( "A Nation of Sheep ..... Will Beget ..... a Nation Ruled by Wolves.")
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To: Helicondelta

They won’t have enough Dems in the Senate left to block anything once the Awan brother sings.


48 posted on 07/25/2017 8:26:49 PM PDT by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: mbrfl; Jonny7797

+1


49 posted on 07/25/2017 8:27:07 PM PDT by Pelham (Liberate California. Deport Mexico Now)
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To: Helicondelta

And the fish is on the line!


50 posted on 07/25/2017 8:27:18 PM PDT by Gulf War One
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To: Helicondelta

It is simple, just don’t let the majority Party call a recess.


51 posted on 07/25/2017 8:29:57 PM PDT by Radix (Natural Born Citizens have Citizen parents)
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To: Helicondelta

How about...don’t adjourn for vacation. Stay in DC and work through vacation if you want to keep Sessions so badly.


52 posted on 07/25/2017 8:35:57 PM PDT by FrankR (Those who a outraged by laws and rules, are the very ones wanting to break them.)
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To: Alberta's Child

[It seems like Barack Obama has been awfully quiet of late.]

Have you noticed weird things happen after OBAMA is photographed eating different kinds of foods? Subliminal messages?


53 posted on 07/25/2017 8:36:27 PM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. Psalm 33:12)
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To: chris37

Even if Lynch were AG now, democrats wouldn’t land as many hits on Trump.


54 posted on 07/25/2017 8:36:39 PM PDT by Greensea
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To: chris37

Even if Lynch were AG now, democrats wouldn’t land as many hits on Trump.


55 posted on 07/25/2017 8:36:54 PM PDT by Greensea
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To: Helicondelta

The only person who can prevent a Senate recess is the Speaker of the House. According to the Constitution, neither house may recess for more than 3 days without the consent of the other. Here’s hoping DJT has a full plate of recess appointments already to go.


56 posted on 07/25/2017 8:41:07 PM PDT by Sgt_Schultze (When your business model depends on slave labor, you're always going to need more slaves.)
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To: Helicondelta

Trump so far inside their heads he’s a cyborg.


57 posted on 07/25/2017 8:46:00 PM PDT by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: Helicondelta

It’s something of a race against time now for the Dems and the Never Trumpers.

Right now it does not appear the Special Counsel actually has evidence of crime by, or even evidence upon which to legitimately predicate a criminal investigation of, the president. It’s just a fishing expedition.

If Sessions resigns and Trump appoints, say, Ted Cruz as Attorney General, Cruz could immediately dismiss the Special Counsel and bring the investigation back into the DOJ itself. Cruz does not have the conflict of interest Sessions claimed he had - he was not a part of the Trump campaign. So Cruz takes back oversight from Rosenstein and simply terminates the Special Counsel.

However, if the Special Counsel can claim that he was uncovering crimes by the president when he was terminated, then he can testify to that effect before Congress, and Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell would support an impeachment effort against Trump for obstruction of justice. The crimes don’t have to be conspiracy with Russia to hack Podesta’s emails, it could be irregularities in obtaining a Trump casino license, a bribe paid to a sheik in Abu Dhabi, withholding information from the IRS in the course of an audit, or really anything at all in Trump’s businesses.

Ultimately, this is not about President Trump himself or Vladimir Putin or John Podesta’s emails.

It is about immigration and trade.

The globalist interests that are represented by Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell very much want cheap foreign labor. They want to bring the labor into the US to lower wages and benefits, and they want to use that labor in locations in other countries and bring their product into the US.

The costs of replaced American workers are not borne by the globalists, but are shifted onto the government and to society at large.

It is all financed by ever-increasing massive debt, both at government and by consumers. They need massive consumer debt in order to support a final last binge of spending. They need massive government debt in order to cover the costs of Americans (health care, food stamps, housing, disability, etc) who are downsized by the globalization money play.

President Pence will be business as usual with NAFTA, TPP, comprehensive immigration reform, etc. and the threat to the power of the globalists will subside.


58 posted on 07/25/2017 8:47:54 PM PDT by Meet the New Boss
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To: Meet the New Boss

... so are you saying us “little people” are powerless, and our votes are worthless ?? We have no control over our “government?”


59 posted on 07/25/2017 8:55:47 PM PDT by nightmarewhileawake
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To: Vlad The Inhaler

I think there’s a whole lot of colludin’ gonin on out there.


60 posted on 07/25/2017 8:57:42 PM PDT by Karl Spooner
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