Christopher Wray Forced a Confirmation [vote] for His Successor
New York Times: “By stepping down now, as the conservative writer Erick Erickson observed, Wray has created a ‘legal obstacle to Trump trying to bypass the Senate confirmation process.’”
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/12/04/opinion/thepoint?unlocked_article_code=1.g04.2VFc.HTWTxBMmPZXm&smid=url-share
New York Times: “By stepping down now, as the conservative writer Erick Erickson observed, Wray has created a ‘legal obstacle to Trump trying to bypass the Senate confirmation process.’”
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/12/04/opinion/thepoint?unlocked_article_code=1.g04.2VFc.HTWTxBMmPZXm&smid=url-share
Comments
Does it foreclose some mechanism that would otherwise allow him to appoint Patel without Senate scrutiny?
"if a vacancy occurs in a Senate-confirmed position..."
As far as I can see, Trump would have run up against the VRA in that case too.