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Stinky The Clown

(67,818 posts)
Mon Feb 15, 2016, 02:10 PM Feb 2016

All you GOPers with your pocket constitutions, Please see Article 2, Section 2 . . . .

. . . . regarding certain presidential powers:

He shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur; and he shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the supreme Court, and all other Officers of the United States, whose Appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by Law: but the Congress may by Law vest the Appointment of such inferior Officers, as they think proper, in the President alone, in the Courts of Law, or in the Heads of Departments.

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.


http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/constitution_transcript.html

I would also point out that the death of Justice Scalia happened during a Senate recess, fitting very neatly into the final sentence of the excerpt above. Just sayin'.
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All you GOPers with your pocket constitutions, Please see Article 2, Section 2 . . . . (Original Post) Stinky The Clown Feb 2016 OP
Nice try, but you read the wrong Constitution. world wide wally Feb 2016 #1
And here is a history of such appoointments... TreasonousBastard Feb 2016 #2
Always good to reacquaint, thanks. Warren said it Hortensis Feb 2016 #3
The Supreme Court actually decided a case on 'recess appointments' during Obama's presidency... PoliticAverse Feb 2016 #4
Right on the power to nominate. Wrong about the "recess" onenote Feb 2016 #5
Republicans and the Constitution Bagsgroove Feb 2016 #6

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
3. Always good to reacquaint, thanks. Warren said it
Mon Feb 15, 2016, 02:15 PM
Feb 2016

more than clearly enough:

McConnell "is right that the American people should have a voice in the selection of the next Supreme Court justice. In fact, they did -- when President Obama won the 2012 election by five million votes.”

FWIW, recess is canceled indefinitely. There will be no recess appointment.

PoliticAverse

(26,366 posts)
4. The Supreme Court actually decided a case on 'recess appointments' during Obama's presidency...
Mon Feb 15, 2016, 02:15 PM
Feb 2016

It was a 9-0 decision against the President and established limits on the President's recess appointment power...

NLRB v. Noel Canning:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NLRB_v._Noel_Canning
http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/national-labor-relations-board-v-noel-canning/

onenote

(42,761 posts)
5. Right on the power to nominate. Wrong about the "recess"
Mon Feb 15, 2016, 02:20 PM
Feb 2016

Despite what some commentators have been saying, the current "recess" is not long enough to trigger the recess clause as defined/clarified by the Supreme Court in NLRB v. Canning. A recess of less than 10 days is presumptively too short to trigger an exercise of the recess appointment power according to that decision. Measured from the first date that the Senate was not in session (the 13th) through the last date the Senate is not going to be in session (the 21st), the recess is only nine days (assuming no pro forma sessions are held in the interim). Moreover, as the Court acknowledged in Canning, in Senate parlance and practice, Sundays are not "days" for purposes of the adjournment clause, so the current recess actually is only 7 days.

I'm not sure why so many people are assuming that the Senate currently is in a recess long enough to trigger the recess appointment clause. The current recess is similar to others the Senate has taken from time to time, and Obama, despite having a large number of non-judicial and judicial nominations bottled up by the repubs in the Senate, hasn't attempted to use those recesses as the basis for any recess appointments.

Bagsgroove

(231 posts)
6. Republicans and the Constitution
Mon Feb 15, 2016, 02:24 PM
Feb 2016

Republicans treat the Constitution the same way they treat the Bible. They pick out the parts they like (and revere them as holy), and ignore the parts they don't.

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