Under the US Constitution...

The Trump Administration said:
It's possible to adjourn both Houses of Congress under Article II, section 3 and then recess-appoint a Cabinet.


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I've heard that is kind of the plan. Not sure or not. Either way it's a solid approach to ensure that Trump gets what he wants. And really that's all we are here for now.

I like the idea of appointing a man under investigation for possible sex trafficking to be Atty General. That's a power move. And appointing a guy who served in the National Guard on the weekends but spent most of his time as a second tier presenter on Fox to run the world's largest military screams "Big Dick Energy".

There's no reason ANY ONE of these picks should have to be vetted by the other branches of government, ESPECIALLY when there's a slim chance that they might not make it through.

We tore out the guardrails FOR A REASON.
 
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Just in case you don’t understand what’s going on here, President Trump may be the greatest civics teacher in our country’s history.

Read and learn.

Silly Swampers shrilly screeching the "unqualified" mantra are trying to pretend they are champions of “Senate confirmation”, without considering whether or not it is constitutional.

This is purposeful.

Governmental power should only ever be exercised on behalf of the people. President Trump just received a massive mandate from the people of America.

President Trump wants this fight and he wants it to be very public.

Why?

All of nis nominees will now be contrasted with the “preferred” candidates of the DC establishment, and the Swampers suffer by comparison.

But it’s more than that.

This fight is over whether or not a president gets to choose his own cabinet to run the Executive Branch.

For too long, the Senate has encroached on the Executive Branch's powers in regards to appointments.

The framers of the Constitution granted the Senate and the president shared power to appoint judges and civil officers. That shared power remains in place, but the way in which the Senate has exercised that power has changed over the course of its history.

In its first decade, the Senate established the practice of senatorial courtesy, in which senators expected to be consulted on all nominees to federal posts - within their states.

This influence over filling federal jobs empowered senators, and many became leaders of the political parties that emerged in the early 19th century. That's when the Democrats invented the Spoils System that poisoned American government with partisan political patronage.

By the late 19th century, in the Boss Tweed/Tammany Hall era, Republican presidents and Democrat senators began to clash over control of these positions, prompting some to push the notion of "advice and consent" of the Senate beyond the scope of the Constitution, while also expanding the federal bureaucracy that was beholden to the party.

What started as Senatorial “courtesy" morphed into Senate “approval".

As the federal government grew in size in the 20th century, the number of appointments subject to Senate confirmation continued to grow until the 1980s, when a Republican majority in Congress passed legislation that has gradually reduced the number of positions supposedly subject to Senate confirmation.

Trump is taking us back to the Constitution.

As the founders intended, Congress will no longer be able to prevent a president elected by the people from fulfilling his promises by appointing the people he wants.

This is the beginning of reining in Congressional encroachment on the Executive Branch and re-establishing the separation of powers.




U.S. Senate: About Executive Nominations | Historical Overview

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The Trump Administration said:
Silly Swampers shrilly screeching the "unqualified" mantra are trying to pretend they are champions of “Senate confirmation”, without considering whether or not it is constitutional.
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The Constitution requires Senate confirmations of nominees, so it is constitutional. It is literally in the Constitution. It can not be more constitutional than that.

The Trump Administration said:
President Trump just received a massive mandate from the people of America.
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50% of the vote is a massive mandate? You want to ignore the Constitution because 50% of the voters voted for trump? Really?

Fine you go to the Supreme Court with that argument. If it wins, we will know how corrupt the Supreme Court is.
 
Historical and civic illiteracy is a danger to the Republic, and it cannot be allowed to continue.

Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu, said it best, I believe:

"It is in a republican government that the whole power of education is required. Virtue is a self-renunciation, which is ever arduous and painful. This virtue may be defined as the love of the laws and of our country. As such love requires a constant preference of public to private interest, it is the source of all private virtues.

This love is peculiar to democracies. In these alone the government is entrusted to private citizens. Now a government is like everything else: to preserve it we must love it. Everything therefore depends on establishing this love in a republic; and to inspire it ought to be the principal business of education."

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The Trump Administration said:
Historical and civic illiteracy is a danger to the Republic, and it cannot be allowed to continue.

Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu, said it best, I believe:

"It is in a republican government that the whole power of education is required. Virtue is a self-renunciation, which is ever arduous and painful. This virtue may be defined as the love of the laws and of our country. As such love requires a constant preference of public to private interest, it is the source of all private virtues.

This love is peculiar to democracies. In these alone the government is entrusted to private citizens. Now a government is like everything else: to preserve it we must love it. Everything therefore depends on establishing this love in a republic; and to inspire it ought to be the principal business of education."

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To Trumpers that will sound like word salad. Maybe dangerous word salad.
 
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