Groups Sound Alarm Over Trump Plot to Install Nominees Without Senate Approval
Groups Sound Alarm Over Trump Plot to Install Nominees Without Senate Approval
"If you're trying to ram through nominees without Senate and public scrutiny, it's a pretty good guess that you have something to hide."
Cool, but what’s going to stop him? Another “watchdog” agency “slamming” him and “voicing concern”? The slow cogs of the government bureaucracy? I think they learned their lessons last time, that there are no REAL guardrails or consequences for not upholding the gentleman’s agreement, no real lash back for lying or deceiving, and they have a hand book that was written years before he was ever elected this time that will guide them to the perfect christofascist state. But sure, let’s raise more alarms now, I’m sure that will stop him.
The Senate can stop him.
Trump's plan is to force a recess, during which he can make appointments. But the appointment only lasts for one Senate session. Crucially, a session lasts however long the Senate wants, and there is no limit to how many sessions they hold.
So after making a recess appointment, the Senate could immediately end their session and immediately start a new one, thus terminating all the recess appointments. And they can do this over and over if Trump keeps trying to make recess appointments.
Was sounding the alarm when he announced his 2nd run for president. So, what's new.