Gene Trevino (@GenoVeno73) on X:
Apparently, the MAGA cult is upset because some of Donald Trump’s picks need Congressional confirmations. They are now suggesting that Donald Trump ram his appointees through using “recess appointments.”
This is why the MAGA cult are the dumbest imbeciles on the planet.
1) Article II of the U.S. Constitution contains the Recess Appointments Clause stating that “The President shall have Power to fill up all Vacancies that may happen during the Recess of the Senate, by granting Commissions which shall expire at the End of their next Session.”
But the Constitution does NOT give the process nor procedure of how recess appointments are to work.
2) Recess appointments are temporary, the appointee’s term expires at the end of the next congressional session. In this case, is January 3rd. Or, after Trump takes office, January 3, 2026.
(FYI – A Congress lasts for two years, with each year constituting a separate session.)
3) Neither the House nor Senate can recess for three days or more WITHOUT the consent of the other.
4) Senators have to first debate a House-passed “adjournment resolution,” then decide to change it, and then agree to send the amended resolution back to the House.
5) The Supreme Court ruled in 2014 that the Senate must be out of session for at least TEN DAYS before the President can make recess appointments.
6) The Senate has never been in recess for ten consecutive days during either Trump’s first term, or Biden’s presidency, so neither of them made recess appointments.
Meaning, either both Chambers didn’t agree on a ten day long recess, or that “adjournment resolution” did not pass.
Recess appointments are a thing, and have happened in the past, but these MAGA morons are so uneducated that they think it’s an “easy peasy” process. IT IS NOT!!
Donald Trump, in a TwitX post basically “threatened” Republicans to recess for more than 10 days so he could ram through his administration picks WITHOUT Congressional confirmation.
On November 10th Trump wrote: “Any Republican Senator seeking the coveted LEADERSHIP position in the United States Senate must agree to Recess Appointments (in the Senate!), without which we will not be able to get people confirmed in a timely manner.”
Once again, Donald Trump is trying to openly violate the law and the U.S Supreme Court.
And once again, Donald Trump wants an administration riddled in corruption, scandal, and lies.