Merrick Garland - O's pick for scotus

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Anonymous wrote:Now that the Senate is on Easter recess, can't Obama just make a recess appointment?

Believe the senate Ned's to be in recess a certain number of days before the president can make a recess appointment (20? 22?), and the current senate calendar is set for recesses to always fall just short of that.

According to this - http://www.scotusblog.com/2016/02/is-a-recess-appointment-to-the-court-an-option/ - seems like it needs to be just three days.

Here's the answer - http://www.rollcall.com/news/no-recess-senate-year. The Senate Republicans are actually refusing to go into recess, just so they can block any recess appointments.

"I and many of my Republican colleagues have already agreed to be in Washington every three days for the rest of this year to gavel in this body in pro forma session so that this president cannot put in a recess appointment judge," Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., made clear in a floor speech Wednesday. That means shifts of GOP senators turning up during the holiday later this month, the seven-week break in July and August, and throughout October. The process is fairly simple, with a senator taking the presiding officer's chair and gaveling the chamber in and out of session without conducting any business along the way.

More do-nothing from the do-nothing Congress.

Or they will do what they did last time around - "go into session" for one minute, without even the remotest inkling of functionality let alone quorum, and then check back out, so that they can keep the clock running and pretend they aren't actually in recess... More and more ways to not do their jobs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Now that the Senate is on Easter recess, can't Obama just make a recess appointment?

Believe the senate Ned's to be in recess a certain number of days before the president can make a recess appointment (20? 22?), and the current senate calendar is set for recesses to always fall just short of that.

According to this - http://www.scotusblog.com/2016/02/is-a-recess-appointment-to-the-court-an-option/ - seems like it needs to be just three days.

Here's the answer - http://www.rollcall.com/news/no-recess-senate-year. The Senate Republicans are actually refusing to go into recess, just so they can block any recess appointments.

"I and many of my Republican colleagues have already agreed to be in Washington every three days for the rest of this year to gavel in this body in pro forma session so that this president cannot put in a recess appointment judge," Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., made clear in a floor speech Wednesday. That means shifts of GOP senators turning up during the holiday later this month, the seven-week break in July and August, and throughout October. The process is fairly simple, with a senator taking the presiding officer's chair and gaveling the chamber in and out of session without conducting any business along the way.

More do-nothing from the do-nothing Congress.

Or they will do what they did last time around - "go into session" for one minute, without even the remotest inkling of functionality let alone quorum, and then check back out, so that they can keep the clock running and pretend they aren't actually in recess... More and more ways to not do their jobs.

Well, Harry Reid used the pro forma tactic in 2007 (or thereabouts) to block Bush from making recess appointments. Was he not doing his job?