I'm not sure he'll protect and defend the Constitution the way law abiding citizens might, though.

He knows nothing about the law except how to break it.

This just keeps getting worse and worse!

Alleged pedophile for AG? The fox in the hen house. Is he even a lawyer? Any law enforcement background (other than evading LE)? What a freakshow.

He was too busy molesting underage girls.

He snorts a lot of cocaine too.

that I actually said the words to those letters and I was brought up not to take the lord's name in vain. And I didn't just say them, more like a scream. How many more horrifically unqualified ass-kissers will there be in his administration!!!!
I probably should check my blood pressure.




I need an emoji with the upside down flag.

He's bringing the US down from the inside as is the wont of his "buddies" Putin and Xi. We are truly in scary and dangerous times, so it's perfectly normal to need to vent. Try to limit your intake and take care of yourself, we'll all need each other.

BTW, there is an upside down flag you can use as your avatar for your profile pic, there isn't an onboard smilie/emoji. My DU > Profile > Avatar Image > America (it's toward the bottom of the list).

We have a perv for an AG. This is just gross 🤮

He has zero prosecutorial experience nor any experience as a jurist. It’s unclear if he knows what the inside of a courtroom even looks like other than maybe as a defendant.

... Matt watched two Perry Mason shows and one Matlock,... so he knows the ropes.

Good Lord,... competence and experience is a joke with these Nazis.

Has he taken the djt loyalty oath.
Then he is good to go.

Paxton is heinous, but I've never heard about him bragging about having sex with or procuring underage girls for his buddies.

but, he is still ridiculous and needs to go.

Gaetz is hated by his fellow republicans almost as much as Ted Cruz.

I think MTG is his only ally.

Won’t happen.

Designed to put some people’s pants on fire 🔥

and to look the other way regarding all presidential crimes.

Saving the best for last?

the deplorables are going to do much damage to everyone.

Merrick Garland is bumped out of last place .

sigh



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This can't be real.



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I can't see even this senate confirming him

assuming they are able to even coordinate the demise of the "Pro-forma sessions" with the House that have been in place since Shrub recess-appointed Bolton to U.N. Ambassador almost 20 years ago (2005), and that would take him out of the House, but would only be in effect for the Congressional session.

There won't be a recess for some time even if Democrats don't filibuster such a resolution...

... but I'm saying there will be 51 "no" votes, and they'll just reject him.

Gaetz isn't all that popular in the House. I don't see how he gains enough support in the Senate

they just require that the chambers announce that they are "in recess", which per the Constitution means >3 days -

Neither House can adjourn for more than three days without the consent of the other - which means a concurrent resolution... which is subject to filibuster. Democrats don't have to allow it.

But again... I don't see it as necessary, because the nomination doesn't have to hang around - there should be enough "no" votes (one republican has already said as much) long before there would be a recess

Based on the cited section of Article I Sect. 5 of the Constitution, BOTH chambers are considered recessed if they are not in session for more than 3 days and if they plan on that happening, they need to "coordinate" that.

This wasn't normally an issue because by and large, they weren't in as combative of times in previous years until after the Gingrich takeover and stolen election of 2000.

So when after Shrub "recess-appointed Bolton" (see this - https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna8758621 and also this as a good discussion about the issue via an interview - https://www.npr.org/2005/08/02/4781459/the-expanding-power-of-a-recess-appointment), Democrats lit the place up. And per that last linked article, Republicans had been similarly pissed when Clinton had done similar when he was in office.

So both parties made a decision to do away with the ability for a President to go around the Senate for confirmations - notably to address the controversial ones who would probably never make it out of Committee, and they did this by "NEVER" going into a "Recess". Even during the winter holidays - you can flip on CSPAN during one of those days of Christmas/New Year's week and see both Chambers "in session", with Clerks there and some other staff and an assigned "Pro-tempore" in the Senate and House to run the show.

I.e., they set up a Rule in their respective Chambers, to literally have someone (normally who lived close by like in MD or VA), to come into their respective Chamber, literally "gavel in" for "Normal Business" (or "Morning Business" ), that includes the Pledge of Allegiance and Convocation, etc., and then maybe have some 1-minute speeches if anyone was around wanting to do that, and perhaps read off the upcoming schedule and submit some written remarks for the record, and then they would RECESS "SUBJECT TO THE CALL OF THE CHAIR" - meaning in 3 days, they would do it all again. Come in, gavel in, Wash. Rinse. Repeat.

These were what they called "Pro-Forma" sessions.

What Obama did was object to the Pro-Forma because literally, once they recessed subject to the call of the chair, nothing was really getting done and he argued it was a literal "recess". So he ignored THE RULES (that were voted on by each Chamber for their Chamber), and appointed people to the NLRB. The GOP sued, it went to the SCOTUS, and SCOTUS basically said - "If those are the Rules of the Senate, then THOSE ARE THE RULES. The Executive Branch has no authority over how the Legislative Branch chooses to conduct business".

THE END.

Now remember - those are RULES and at the beginning of each Congressional session, each Chamber drafts and votes on NEW Rules (in most cases, keeping most of the previous session's Rules and tweaking them or adding/subtracting from them).

The GOP does NOT yet control the Senate, so this will NOT happen now. That will only happen in January when the NEW 119th Session gavels in and they draft NEW Rules, and THAT is when they can coordinate with the House to adopt Rules that would allow an actual "Recess" (by each Chamber), allowing 45 to put in whoever they want "temporarily". I.e., they are only in that position for that Congressional session (not "permanent" ).

All you have to do is be a CSPAN junkie and you will see this wild stuff in action!!!!

and it is something that won't be decided until the 119th Congress is sworn in January 3, 2025, when they have their formal leadership elections and they start drafting their "Rules".

But if both chambers of Congress decide to go "full loon", they may just allow them to thwart any Democratic member blocks. The Senate still has a couple GOP "institutionalists" in there, so they may balk and kill it or perhaps allow it only if there are caveats and stipulations for such.

He’s already resigned from the House.

From another thread: I think this gets Gaetz out of the House and thus out from under the ethics probe (taking the new majority off the spot of having to deal with him). It also allows some senators to show some independence from the incoming administration by signaling their opposition… and then Trump’s eventual AG seems moderate by comparison.

The only question becomes Gaetz’s consolation prize

I just saw that the Ethics committee was due to release their report on Gaetz tomorrow. Now they have no jurisdiction.

There’s no need for a nominee to resign instantaneously. I’m more and more convinced that this has nothing to do with the AG slot… except to make the eventual pick seem more reasonable by comparison

was that it would supposedly moot the Ethics Report and possibly even result in it no longer being released - https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143339437

More from that OP's linked article - https://www.politico.com/news/2024/11/13/matt-gaetz-resigns-congress-00189488

Trump wants to make sure he's never bothered by his visits to Epstein Island

Kakistocracy in action!

I really want confirmation hearings on Gaetz

HAMLET
Angels and ministers of grace defend us!
--Shakespeare, Hamlet 1.4.39

ARIEL
Hell is empty,
And all the devils are here.
--Shakespeare, The Tempest 1.2.214-15

Is there any pool going on, to predict when this clown car will crash?

It's so crazy I can't get angry...I can't imagine how this works out well for tfg or Gaetz in the long run.

Ridiculous! I'm stunned...

He won't be approved, right?

And you think it is a joke?

I know there might be a recess appointment, I know he still might be confirmed 53-47, but oh boy, do I want to hear the questions.

they will be AFRAID not to confirm!

what part of FASCISM are you not getting?

What is really pissing me off are the people who are expressing shock at all these appointments.

Dammit, this fucker told us all along what he plans to do!

Utter, eternal hatred for those who voted for this nightmare. Sick and tired of the ignorance in this country.

is going to look like Gotham in the Dark Knight Returns where Scarecrow is presiding over trials. This is like the last days of Caligula.

Caligula's horse?

Helps explain why Dump is so insistent on recess appointments.

N/M

I don't say that a lot, only on special occasions. And THIS is special.

Link to tweet

Squirrel

It's all too much for me to take.

That headline was the first time I've laughed since the election.

Strained my eyes looking for the attribution for the Onion. The procedure then, is to nominate only people who are the most inappropriate possible choice for the position? I really HATE TFG and anyone who supports him. Not too happy with Biden, either; for showing respect to TSF when scorn is the only rational emotion.

I'm hearing Murkowski, too.

Link to tweet

I suppose they will appoint someone just as horrible, but this creep is gone

Prosecutions at record speeds, not going for small fish, not even an appearance of impartiality, routinely engaging in fear and favor...

More to come, folks!

....absolutely disgusting.

Kakistocrazy

Hulk Hogan as Director of the FBI?

Throw the ball to Matt Goetz to steal ALL the media attention....while he sneaks in all his other disgusting---less noticeable--cabinet picks.

This is literally insane. Is there no way to stop this?

Every appointment, everything he does is to tear down America to serve Putin, and all Billionaires who benefit from tearing down America for profit.
We are no longer a Democratic Republic the shining star. we are a corporation that they will Raid and consume. add to their portfolio. suck us dry, make us the 3rd word country, cheap labor, They have no country, they all exist outside out of any laws of any country. Their souls are burned away, all that is left is souless Greed. I'm really having issues with the current situation guard rails are being dismantled.

Gaetz's most extensive courtroom experience was as a DWI defendant.

In the social media man-o-sphere, not MSM, there is the who ecosystem of men who blame their failures on women. Many progressives and Democrats just dismissed them, since how many women want to watch Andrew Tate videos on how to dominate women, but Matt Gaetz and his exploitation of underage girls plays strongly to that demographic.

Put a lot of unqualified and inexperienced people in charge, and sooner or later chaos will ensue.

Then the blame game starts . . . hopefully not too many innocent civilians of either political persuasion or ethnicity will be harmed, traumatised or end up with permanent PTSD.

My Bingo card says . . . "Expect chaos, March, 2025."