[Remember When] Obama uses power of appointment, sidestepping Senate

/news/2010/dec/29/obama-uses-power-of-appointment/ ^ | December 29, 2010

[Yosemitest]

President Obama is sidestepping the Senate to directly fill the No. 2 position at the Justice Department and appoint four U.S. ambassadors whose nominations had been stalled or blocked by lawmakers for months.

The White House on Wednesday said Mr. Obama is using a recess appointment to install James Cole as the deputy attorney general and ...

Senators had blocked or refused to consider the confirmations of the nominees for various reasons, including questions about their qualifications. ...

Recess appointments are made when the Senate is not in session and last only until the end of the next session of Congress. They are frequently used when Senate confirmation is not possible.

In the nomination fight over Mr. Cole, Democrats in the Senate tried to confirm the former Justice Department official by unanimous consent
but Republicans objected, expressing concerns about his approach to terrorism cases and his work for troubled insurer American International Group.

Mr. Cole, a partner at the law firm Bryan Cave LLP since 1995, served as special counsel for the House ethics committee in its 1997 investigation of Speaker Newt Gingrich and was a Justice Department official for 13 years before entering private law practice in Washington. He has been a partner at the law firm Bryan Cave LLP since 1995. ...

At the Justice Department, Mr. Cole served his last four years as deputy chief of the public integrity section, the same unit where Mr. Holder once worked. ...

[Yosemitest]

Compare this to "Donald Trump's new acting attorney general, Matthew Whitaker," and the DemocRATS' temper tantrum .

[Windflier]

"Obama is using a recess appointment to install James Cole as the deputy attorney general..."

And the press didn't say boo. Yet when Trump does it, it's a constitutional crisis.

[Yosemitest]

This needs to be shoved down the LIBERALS’ throats !

[LeoWindhorse]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QqtXBZx4ic

[semimojo]

Compare this to "Donald Trump's new acting attorney general, Matthew Whitaker," and the DemocRATS' temper tantrum

These were recess appointments - not the case with Whitacre.

[Yosemitest]

Did you hear any complaints at that time, from the LAME Stream Media about The ILLEGAL ALIEN IN CHIEF's appointment being unconstitutional ?

Noooooo !
They were ALL FOR IT !

[semimojo]

Did you hear any complaints at that time, from the LAME Stream Media about The ILLEGAL ALIEN IN CHIEF's appointment being unconstitutional ?

No, because temporary appointments made while the Senate is in recess are explicitly authorized in the Constitution.

[Yosemitest]

And was the Senate not in recess yesterday ?

[11th_VA]

So glad you posted this ... There was another agency he made recess appointments as well, and th SC had to over turn him

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Yosemitest.

[semimojo]

And was the Senate not in recess yesterday?

No.

The Senate met at 4:00:06 p.m. in pro forma session, and adjourned at 4:00:45 p.m. until 9 a.m., on Friday, November 9, 2018.

[foreverfree]

bump

[Freee-dame]

I do not think that the senate has ever been in recess during President Trump’s administration. McConnell is responsible for this.

[GOPJ]

The press is corrupt ... they allow different standards because newsrooms get illegal ‘insider’ information from democrats...

When the coin of the realm is information - - bribes are made in ‘leaks’...

[GOPJ]

The press is corrupt ... they allow different standards because newsrooms get illegal ‘insider’ information from democrats...

When the coin of the realm is information - - bribes are made in ‘leaks’...

Washington Post - Morning Joe - New York Times...

[bitt]

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[stylin19a]

SCOTUS rules against Obama

https://www.cnn.com/2014/06/26/justice/supreme-court-recess-appointments/index.html

[SuperLuminal]

I’m shocked! /s

[Yosemitest]

Thanks for the link.