it is unclear how this would even work?
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Here’s article II, section 3, with the relevant text highlighted. If he wants to try this he can go ahead, but this is a power that has quite literally never been exercised, and it’s contingent on a disagreement between the chambers that won’t happen.
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To make Trump feel powerful or something, I guess. HE adjourned THEM
Very iffy on the details; the house and senate never adjourn and I doubt they’ll start up again
IDK tho. Both parties are VERY damaged atm. So we'll see.
Step 2: Please see Step 1.
James I it. Send them home. Bring them back at his discretion.
It's a high ask, but much more feasible with a massive disaster first to prime the country.
I have a guess but I don't want to get a LEO visit for a skeet.
2) it's never been exercised before because presidents by custom stay out of Congress's business... how cute.
3) I *imagine* a "disagreement" can be a filibuster.
4) the courts won't get involved because "political question"
If not, there's no problem.
If they do, though, things are going to get bad.
I mean I guess if Johnson has indicated he’d create a disagreement with a less pliant Senate & that’s the secret Trump alluded to, it could be a way to jam wrecking appointments through… who’d have standing to challenge it?
(I'm not being glib, or not entirely. Tell us why he can't do this, or at least why he might not be able to.)
But the entire internet doesn’t need to play armchair constitutional lawyer.
Let’s be more focused this time.
He'd need a majority of one house to vote to adjourn for 10+ days. It's untested, but given the state of the courts, he might be on reasonably firm footing if he can get one house to vote for it.
But I'm just a lawyer, not a political hack disguised as a SCOTUS justice.
but I'm unfamiliar with what "adjournment" means in this context - for the session? For the week?
But this is all moot; Trump just needs to get Thune to declare recess.