Public Notice: How Johnson could make Trump's recess appointments a reality

[Dennis Donovan]

Public Notice - How Johnson could make Trump's recess appointments a reality

Talk of cutting out Dems — and GOP dissenters — is more than just idle rhetoric.

David Nir
Nov 18, 2024



Donald Trump's plan to stock his cabinet with the most appalling MAGA nihilists hinges on the obeisance of one man in particular: House Speaker Mike Johnson. And given Johnson's track record of cowardice, Trump may indeed get what he wants — and demolish a pillar of democracy along the way.

The crescendo of increasingly nightmarish picks like Tulsi Gabbard, Matt Gaetz, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. almost makes Liz Dye's take here at Public Notice — that Trump is trying to install the crowd at the Star Wars cantina — seem too kind.

So beyond the pale are Trump's worst choices that even some Republicans in the Senate are balking. And it's worth remembering that many Trump nominees during his first term in office withdrew from consideration in the face of GOP inaction or hostility.

But whether or not Republican senators are inclined to revert to subservience and greenlight these nominations, Trump is already armed with a plan to bypass the confirmation process entirely. He wants to fill vacancies without a confirmation vote by making so-called recess appointments when the Senate is not in session — a power granted to him by the Constitution. And he has a path to do it.

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[Irish_Dem]

1. What Trump wants, Trump gets.

[Rebl2]

2. Can't

they keep the senate in session to keep him from doing recess appointments? It’s been done before.

[underpants]

3. This assumes Johnson can get enough House votes to recess

[Vinca]

4. Saint Mike better hope the heaven and hell he believes in don't really exist.

[Solly Mack]

5. K&R

He has the Federalist Society and the Heritage Foundation showing him all the ways he can use the Constitution to his advantage.

The destruction of government as we know it, being reduced down to an unitary executive, with a weakened and/or compliant Congress, and the majority on the Supreme Court to rubberstamp with the color of law, will allow the dream of conservative - yes, conservatives - to shrink government down small enough to drown it in a bathtub - as they have telling us for decades.

All they needed was the right demagogue to be the face of it all.

They have that now.

Trump/MAGA backed by the GOP establishment, of which organizations like the Federalist Society and the Heritage Foundation represent.

[unblock]

6. Seems to me this is only when disagreeing on time of adjournment.

So if the senate doesn't want to adjourn, the house can't create a disagreement..