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Re: 51 - I did, apparently I’m the only one of the two that understands it. Nominated cabinet officials can serve in an -acting capacity-.

https://time.com/5566733/trump-acting-secretary-concerns-scholars/

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Not the same thing. Nice try, though.

Acting officials typically don’t have the stature to implement new programs or regulations that would have significant effect, and lack the access to the networks that would get them help from the White House and other agencies, (Stanford law professor Anne Joseph) O’Connell wrote. …

From the Time screed. There is still no way Sessions was going to be replaced with an “acting” AG under the 1998 Federal Vacancies Reform Act.

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Re: 51 - I did, apparently I’m the only one of the two that understands it. Nominated cabinet officials can serve in an -acting capacity-.

Sure for a limited time.