Under the US Constitution...
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PostmodernProphet
fully immersed in faith..
a simple truth.......you believe you are right but the majority of American voters believe you're a mindless fuck and Trump will be in the Oval Office for the next four years......cope.......
Crepitus
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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.
IBDaMann
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The President must grant Commissions which shall expire at the End of their next Session, per Article II, section 2 (very end).
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IBDaMann
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That's why you understand that the 2020 election was stolen.
Publius
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That's cool, off to ignore land you go, congratulations.
Publius
Well-known member
Sorry, I can't take you seriously.
If you need proof that you are a fuckwit, pay attention, though I seriously doubt you are so capable:
The majority do not know who I am.
Therefore, they cannot possibly believe anything about me.
Therefore, you are a mindless twit, of the fuckwit subspecies, for making such a asinine assertion.
Therefore, off to ignore land you go.
congratulations.
Feel free to Suck My Dick! if you think that might help.
I am nothing if not Generous.
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Willful ignorance is always a bad idea.