I understand. The statute is not the governing law here. The U.S. Constitution is. That provision of the Federal Vacancy Act is almost certainly unconstitutional by any measure.
Sod off, swampy. Unless you can show me where you’ve been foaming at the mouth over it when Dems used it.
The statue stands. Fight that battle your own way. At least Trump used legal means instead of usurping the law as his predecessor did. There are infinitely bigger unconstitutional issues to deal with that a successor statute that proscribes a mandatory sunset for an interim appointment.
Your energy may be better spent railing against “birthright citizenship” than an infinitely minuscule self correcting issue. While I wholeheartedly agree we should not allow unconstitutional statutes go unchallenged, my philosophy requires me to approach large issues first and many times the small one are taken care of in the matter of that course.