Recess appointments:
If the Senate agrees by simple majority to recess for 10 days, Trump can appoint his cabinet w/o them.
If the Senate won’t adjourn, but the majority of the House votes to recess, the House & Senate are in disagreement.
Gue’s who’s the tie breaker? https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg7r5e3gz7o
If the Senate agrees by simple majority to recess for 10 days, Trump can appoint his cabinet w/o them.
If the Senate won’t adjourn, but the majority of the House votes to recess, the House & Senate are in disagreement.
Gue’s who’s the tie breaker? https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg7r5e3gz7o
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Do not presurrender. Do not doomcast. It's what he wants you to do.
1. I don't believe the majority of the GOP in the senate will agree to abdicate their advise and consent responsibility
2. if the House were to undermine the senate by calling a recess, knowing the senate won't, it could cause a massive schism between MAGA and Thune et al
The tie breaker at that point might be Vance.
This is just me thinking aloud. It might not be right.
1) Who rules that the Senate is in recess if Trump declares a conflict (I think this one is probably easy: Vance would as President of the Senate)
2) Is that ruling challengable, e.g. can there be a vote of the chamber to overrule Vance's ruling?
The problem here is there is no precedent because a President has never tried to do this.
#2- no clue
I think he’d reconvene Congress only when they promise to pass his legislation.
The American people will suffer because of Republicans, who are so fucking stupid and voted for him
You don’t hear of the White House trying to help us at all
Pathetic!
Funneling money to cronies?
when I think of the Immunity decision, I'm not convinced that the SC wouldn't rule that bricks are vegetables
Why this isn't being openly discussed is totally bizarre.
And that provision makes no sense within the context of the Article 1 -- the part of the
In other words, in Article 1, the constitution allows the Senate to force the House to stay in session (and vice versa) with
202-224-3121 Memorize that number and use it every day to say NO to whatever the republican soup du jour happens to be.