Trump declares Senate majority candidates should allow him to make recess appointments
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The president-elect said the next Senate majority leader should be open to bypassing Senate confirmation for administration appointees.

Summary

Donald Trump has publicly involved himself in the race for Senate Majority Leader, insisting that any Republican candidate for the role must support his demand for recess appointments, allowing him to bypass Senate confirmation for cabinet positions.

Trump’s statement on Truth Social emphasized the need for rapid appointments to avoid delays. GOP candidate Sen. Rick Scott endorsed Trump’s call, while opponent Sen. John Thune criticized it as a violation of the separation of powers.

Trump also calls on Democrats to halt judicial nominations during the lame duck session.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
    101·
    9 days ago

    What’s infuriating to me is that my mother seems to think my never-in-the-closet daughter can just go into the closet and, as she put it, “obey the rules” and she’ll be fine. No she fucking won’t. The internet is forever. She hasn’t kept being queer a secret because she’s never been ashamed of it and she shouldn’t be.

    Even if I thought she’d be fine if she just did that, it’s not fair to her. It’s not right to keep her from love.

    What a lot of people are either too young to know or don’t remember is that it was wasn’t fully legal to be queer in the U.S. until 2003.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_v._Texas

    Meanwhile, we have current SCOTUS justices saying we should revisit the marriage issue.