GOP House members talking about Trump & Speaker Johnson forcing the Senate to adjourn to allow recess appointments

[j brown's body]

Do you think talk is about protecting Congressional power or giving it up?

"Some Capitol Hill Republicans are already starting to deliberate whether President-elect Trump has a constitutional pathway to adjourn Congress himself in order to clear any possible resistance to his Cabinet appointments.

Trump allies are exploring whether a constitutional clause would enable House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., to work with Trump to shut down Congress even if the Senate objects – clearing the way for his recess appointments.

...The passage in question would allow the commander in chief to "on extraordinary Occasions, convene both Houses, or either of them, and in Case of Disagreement between them, with Respect to the Time of Adjournment, he may adjourn them to such Time as he shall think proper."

If Johnson proposes to take the House and Senate out of session and the Senate resists, then there is "disagreement," the theory goes, and Trump could send everyone home for as long as he wants.

"We're still looking at that," Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, chair of the House Judiciary Committee’s subcommittee on the Constitution and Limited Government, told Fox News Digital. "I'm actually talking to a bunch of folks who have been a part of litigating this in the past… reviewing it to kind of figure out the history and the contours of that particular provision, because that's kind of in the zip code of unprecedented."

Rep. Matt Rosendale, R-Mont., told Fox News Digital, "I have heard that there were some discussions about that, whether it is already currently allowed or procedurally correct, but not that much."

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[Luce]

Here we go.

 

[Pyrite]

Do you think talk is about protecting Congressional power or giving it up?

"Some Capitol Hill Republicans are already starting to deliberate whether President-elect Trump has a constitutional pathway to adjourn Congress himself in order to clear any possible resistance to his Cabinet appointments.

Trump allies are exploring whether a constitutional clause would enable House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., to work with Trump to shut down Congress even if the Senate objects – clearing the way for his recess appointments.

...The passage in question would allow the commander in chief to "on extraordinary Occasions, convene both Houses, or either of them, and in Case of Disagreement between them, with Respect to the Time of Adjournment, he may adjourn them to such Time as he shall think proper."

If Johnson proposes to take the House and Senate out of session and the Senate resists, then there is "disagreement," the theory goes, and Trump could send everyone home for as long as he wants.

"We're still looking at that," Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, chair of the House Judiciary Committee’s subcommittee on the Constitution and Limited Government, told Fox News Digital. "I'm actually talking to a bunch of folks who have been a part of litigating this in the past… reviewing it to kind of figure out the history and the contours of that particular provision, because that's kind of in the zip code of unprecedented."

Rep. Matt Rosendale, R-Mont., told Fox News Digital, "I have heard that there were some discussions about that, whether it is already currently allowed or procedurally correct, but not that much."

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The Executive Branch's attempt to restrict the Senate's power of advise-and-consent and arrogate that authority to the President.

 

[Mr Person]

" would allow the commander in chief"


Well, he's not commander in chief until he's inaugurated.

So the plan is what? Just do it and ignore the courts?

 

[Pyrite]

" would allow the commander in chief"


Well, he's not commander in chief until he's inaugurated.

So the plan is what? Just do it and ignore the courts?

That would be my guess.

Along with ignoring any inconvenient court rulings.

 

[Lovebug]

They thought he was their savior too

How Did Adolf Hitler Happen?

Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany in 1933 following a series of electoral victories by the Nazi Party. He ruled absolutely until his death by suicide in April 1945.

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[Cordelier]

If anyone was thinking of committing a Federal crime, the time will soon be ripe for you to do so. Just make sure it's big enough to cross the AG's desk.

Because if you challenge any conviction he was a part of - and he is found to have been illegitimately holding the office - guess what happens to the case against you.

 

[Mr Person]

If anyone was thinking of committing a Federal crime, the time will soon be ripe for you to do so. Just make sure it's big enough to cross the AG's desk.

Because if you challenge any conviction he was a part of - and he is found to have been illegitimately holding the office - guess what happens to the case against you.

NOTE: make sure you register as a Republican first. And wear a MAGA hat when you do it.

 

[Cordelier]

NOTE: make sure you register as a Republican first. And wear a MAGA hat when you do it.

I'm not even talking pardons, though... just think how many Federal appeals could be launched based solely on the slightest question of the Attorney General's legitimacy.

 

[eman623]

So much talk over nothing.

 

[Pyrite]

So much talk over nothing.

Rendering the Senate's duty to approve or disapprove Presidential appointments is "nothing" in your opinion?

Why?

 

[post]

Johnson represents the 419th wealthiest district in the unsafest state. There are less than 25 poorer voting and non-voting districts. IOW, he has delivered next to
nothing to improve the lot of his average constituent. He confirms his highest priority is not even to represent them, but only increasing the unchecked power of the head of his political cult.

 

[Lycanthrope]

Mike Johnson:

"A free society and a healthy republic depend upon religious and moral virtue - not only because they help prevent political corruption and the abuse of power - but also because those convictions in the minds and hearts of the people make it possible to preserve their essential freedoms be emphasizing and inspiring individual responsibility, self-sacrifice, the dignity of hard work, the rule of law, civility, patriotism, the value of family and community, and the sancrity of every human life." - Facebook post from 2022

"Experts project that homosexual marriage is the dark harbinger of chaos and anarchy that could doom even the strongest republic." - op-ed written in 2004

"When you break up the nuclear family, when you tell a generation of people that life has no meaning, that it's expendable, then you do end up with school shooters." - defending Louisiana's abortion restrictions in 2023

And for all that moralizing, Johnson has not only gotten on his knees for Donald, a man for whom civility, individual responsibility, self-sacrifice, and fidelity mean nothing, but is now actively working to shield Gaetz, a man accused of paying a teenage girl for sex, from scrutiny.

Johnson's a worse Trump cuck than Cruz or Graham, because he wraps himself in this veneer of moral rectitude. No wonder people view American evangelicalism with such contempt - look at its public figures. **** that little prig.

 

[Visbek]

Do you think talk is about protecting Congressional power or giving it up?

lol... Clearly it's about surrender.

That said, there is almost no way Johnson and Trump can force the Senate to adjourn. That will get destroyed in the courts.

It's astounding, and repulsive, that Trump is already burning through his political capital before he's even inaugurated, and is so terrified of having his candidates vetted that he'll blow up the entire Congress to get his toadies appointed.

 

[dobieg]

I guess the only thing liberals can do right now is helplessly stand by and do their typical bitch like little whiny girls routine.