Posted on 09/20/2020 7:45:54 AM PDT by OneVike
Should Follow The Eisenhower Precedence
New Jersey judge William J. Brennan was appointed to the Supreme Court by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1956 through a recess appointment. This was done in part with an eye on the presidential campaign that year;
On September 7, 1956, Sherman Minton announced his intent to retire in a letter to President Dwight D. Eisenhower, and he served until October 15, 1956. Now Eisenhower was running for reelection, and his advisors thought it would be politically advantageous to place a northeastern Catholic on the court. With the Senate already adjourned, Eisenhower made a recess appointment of William J. Brennan to the Court. After Eisenhower was sworn in for his second term in 1957, Brennan was formally nominated to the Court and confirmed in 1957.
So I advise Trump to make a recess appointment rot fill the vacant seat and let the chips fall where they may next year after Congress and Trump are all sworn in.
Certainly precedent for doing it. Let’s hope get better than Brennan.
Regards,
Let’s not be defeatist and assume we won’t quickly get a nominee confirmed PERMANENTLY. Try that first AND TRY IT FORCEFULLY.
A recess appointment only lasts until the end of the current Senate session. Appointing a USSC justice to serve until December 31st does nothing except help get through any election-related cases that may come up.
So I advise Trump to make a recess appointment rot fill the vacant seat and let the chips fall where they may next year”
No. We will be lucky to hold the Senate with all the BS the rats are getting away with. We have a chance to replace a radical who hated the Constitution with a conservative. It is a once in a decade chance.
I don’t understand why this whole thing, including hearings & votes, can’t be done in a week or less...???
Maybe, there are parliamentary rules meant to slow things down?
This plan of action is a waste pf time and argument. The House can prevent the Senate from recessing. So this can’t happen.
The 50’s were a different time, before Ted Kennedy and Chuck Schumer (the two confirmation militants) were in the Senate.
Yes I caught that too late. I should be better at proof reading, but from time too time I still make mistakes
It’s no way to flush out the Rino’s.
Brennan was one of the worst justices ever appointed, as I recall.
It's sickening how often we don't. Stevens, Souter, ROberts might be better, but only slightly, the jury is still out on Gorsuch...
True, but Trump is better than Eisenhower was. He couldn’t get what he wanted so he just capitulated and went out and instead spent most his time playing golf. Kind of reminds you of how Arnie was when he couldn’t get things done with Democrats in CA. Trump is a fighter and he knows who he wants.
“A recess appointment only lasts until the end of the current Senate session. Appointing a USSC justice to serve until December 31st does nothing except help get through any election-related cases that may come up.”
Nothing stops Trump from working to formally place a nominee on the Court at the same that a recess appointment is seated, as far as I know, and per the article - so we get the best of both worlds, the seat is filled with our guy to see us through the election, and perhaps, hopefully, Trump is able to seat a permanent person early.
Why risk turning the seat over to the Marxists next year?
The best of both worlds is a permanent placement on the court before the election.
The Turtle could change whatever parliamentary rules he and his GOP colleagues would like.
Will Chamberlain is an attorney who has been advocating on Twitter that since Trump’s nominee will presumably already been through hearings and a vote in the Senate that they shouldn’t need to go through hearings again.
The Senate does not go into formal recess anymore. Both the House and Senate hold pro forma sessions that prevent the President from making recess appointments.
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