...and appoints them Acting AG.

SHE is the ONLY Justice Department official left who can sign a request for a FISA warrent.

Until a new AG is confirmed OR she is fired and her replacement confirmed there will be no FISA warrants AT ALL.

If the Orange Pustule fires her, he strikes another blow for terrorism.

Can't he make the Solicitor General the acting AG? Dusting off my Watergate history here.

This was one of the safeguards they adopted when they re-upped FISA courts.

The only positions which can seek a FISA warrant require Senate confirmation.

Rage on Trump. You wanted to put a xenophobic racist in as AG. This is what you get.

Each application shall require the approval of the Attorney General based upon his finding that it satisfies the criteria and requirements of such application as set forth in this subchapter.

The last one didn't work out so well for tricky dick. He had to stoop all the way down to Bork to do the dirty work.

The Justice Dept. is transitioning from Loretta Lynch to Luv-to-lynch.

Is coming!!
Take cover!

of bipartisan consensus on refugee policy but was in such a rush that he a) couldn't coordinate it with his cabinet and b) wouldn't have people in place to defend it.

It isn't just a case of bad policy it is also a case of not being able to understand decision process and managing a complex bureaucratic community.

Of course Sessions is a racist but think about how he will be a terrible legal counsel for Trump and completely inept in forming defense strategies.

Rolling out any major policy position now is premature. First rule in a minority government is to find some policy that can broaden your base of support not to keep playing to the base.

Is it bad policy? Yes, but it's timing is idiotic.

tRump is too stupid to see much of it, and the bit he sees he has been persuaded by the real powers (Bannon & Pence) that it is consistent with how he campaigned. Unfortunately, it is consistent on the surface, but even worse in total.

tRump is just enough of a fuck-you robber baron capitalist to want to tear down a lot of government to get it out of his way.

Even tRump is getting madder (crazier) from power. He said all kinds of stuff on the campaign trail and now he realizes there are ways he did not imagine that he can be destructive and so it is going to his head.

End game for Bannon is martial law and white supremacy. He wants to fuck Jews and brown skinned people.

This is batshit.

The confusion about green cards was not on purpose.

They both want to create chaos in the US.

Bannon, to substitute an alt-right old-white-male supremacist regime.

Putin, to paralyze the US so that he can make moves in Europe, the Middle East and west Asia.

Once they get through the cabinet they are going to face a filibuster.

I understand your argument, Bannon is an evil genius.

There is no evidence of genius here. These guys just aren't that sharp.

I didn't say Bannon was a genius. He's an opportunist, not a strategist.

Just like I never said George Bush II was a genius. He was an opportunist (LIHOP at most), not a strategist (MIHOP).

It really amounts to nothing. Just a slap on fRump's rump.

They're shit, and they're making a shithole.

To do something latter. Can't relitigate the case at the lower court and can't raise new issues on appeal.

Trump is ruthless in attacking its critics and threatening retaliation, so she is going to be in for a tough time.

fire her? her job ends when/if sessions is confirmed anyway

before noon tomorrow.

...for any future appointments, so her career takes a hit.

Take a bow.

So, will it rain tomorrow? Since you know the future.

The Dems filibuster the SC nominee.

The Repubs put pressure on Red State Dems for a few months.

McConnell announces with sorrow that he'll have to end the filibuster.

The nominee gets through and both sides are happy that their team fought.

Why didn't you warn me? I was counting on you!

Some days, you have to tell the client that they have no case.

I mean that in a good way, because I'm a bureaucrat.

I love it. Trump is bound up in red tape.

Welcome to the bureaucracy. This is no place for amateurs.