Well, it's starting: Trump Tells GOP to Bypass Senate Confirmation Process, Block Biden Judicial Appointments

[In It to Win It]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-tells-gop-bypass-senate-203827077.html

Despite enjoying a 53-47 majority in the next Senate, Donald Trump called for any Republican senator seeking the position of majority leader to agree to make recess appointments during his administration, bypassing the traditional confirmation process. He also told his party to block any lame-duck judicial appointments the Biden administration tries to push through.

“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… We need positions filled IMMEDIATELY!” Trump posted on X, signaling his intent to once again govern via social media. “Additionally, no Judges should be approved during this period of time because the Democrats are looking to ram through their Judges as the Republicans fight over Leadership. THIS IS NOT ACCEPTABLE. THANK YOU!”

“Republicans are going to have a 53-47 majority in the Senate, and yet here’s Trump urging the Senate to go into recess so that he can bypass it altogether,” Georgetown University Law Professor Steve Vladeck posted on X, reacting to Trump’s declaration. “In other words, he wants to install folks who couldn’t even get through that Senate.”

Elon Musk, the billionaire who turned X into a bastion for misinformation and who was a key figure in Trump’s campaign, also showed support of this move. “This is essential,” he wrote. “There is no other way.” Trump has said Musk will serve in a new administration role: “Secretary of Cost-Cutting.”

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[neverforget]

1. He's going to try to make the Senate irrelevant. They'll have no power if

they give in to him, but then again, that's the plan. Concentrate power in the President and make everything else irrelevant. We'll see who, if any, Republican stands up to him. They might get a horsehead in their bed if they do.

[GoreWon2000]

4. It's about making the entire Congress irrelevant

and a rubber stamp like Putin did in Russia.

[Karasu]

9. Yep.

A number of red state governors have already successfully replicated or are in the process of replicating the Putin model on a smaller level. This was always the plan.

[LessAspin]

2. Aileen Cannon

Cannon was appointed in November 2020 after Trump lost to Biden.

[LessAspin]

12. Elon Musk: "This is Essential"

Musk must be getting tired of having to cherry pick judicial districts to bring his lawsuits..

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/elon-musk-s-x-moves-all-legal-fights-to-conservative-texas-court-district/ar-AA1tSeSJ?ocid=socialshare

Musk loves lawsuits almost as much as Trump. Must be one of the traits that bond these grifters.

[Tribetime]

3. Casey will won ..52 -48 ,if it makes a difference

[Polybius]

8. Highly unlikely

The math seems like a very uphill battle. When was the last time the AP called a Senate race wrong?

[dchill]

5. Hitler, waxing.

[Figarosmom]

6. The pnly way they can block

Judges now is if Manchan and Sinama start acting stupid again. I sure hope Schumer and Biden are pushing young judges through as fast as they can while we still have the Senate.

[Karasu]

7. "Secretary of Cost-Cutting?" Give me a fucking break.

That's among the goofiest, most Republican shit ever. Almost "Space Force"-level cartoony.

Get that Greek/Argentinean-style austerity shit outta here. Considering what's happened elsewhere, this unqualified billionaire cretin is going to increase the poverty rate by 50% in record time. Elon keeps fantasizing about forcing Americans to "live within their means", however these fascists choose to define that. Just wait until the idiots who voted for them find out in real time what it REALLY means to live in an austerity state.

Also, it cracks me up how Republicans keep creating increasingly ludicrous new government positions and agencies whenever they're in power, despite always selling themselves as the party of "small government."

[NJCher]

10. Yeah, well McConnell is

Trying to get a Senate president who will stand up to him. Two of the three candidates he’s chosen are not trump supporters. The other is Rick Scott, who is. There’s a thread on this. Daily Beast is the source.

[lamp_shade]

11. Or else what?