“Without one chamber participating in this improper scheme, this action would be unconstitutional. The president has no general, unilateral power to adjourn Congress.”
—Rep. Justin Amash (I-Mich.), on Donald Trump’s threat Wednesday to try to force Congress to adjourn so he could make appointments without Senate approval, the second time this week that he has claimed “total authority.”
“Dissolving an assembly comes out of a dictator’s handbook. That’s banana republic stuff.”
—Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), a member of the House Judiciary Committee, on Trump’s threat.
“The President made an unprecedented power grab by placing political allies at a powerful federal agency while the Senate was meeting regularly and without even bothering to wait for its advice and consent. A unanimous Supreme Court has rejected this brazen power-grab.”
—Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), following the Supreme Court’s rejection of President Obama’s 2012 recess appointment to the National Labor Relations Board. [Now, who’d a-thunk the Orange Cheeto would try to emulate the man he so detests? Can you say irony? Kinda puts Moscow Mitch behind the eight-ball.]
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As far as I am concerned, to be crass, I would like to see Senate Mafia Don Mitch McConnell underneath a 2000 8-ball! He is the single most responsible “public servant” for all of this open corruption.
And, he, like his hero, has absolutely no problem directly contradicting himself and not worrying about doing so in the least.
He (Trump) says and does what his gut instincts tell him because he has no brain cells to tell him otherwise. But he keeps chipping away and chipping away at our democracy in his reach for more and more power. Pushes the envelope constantly. Bullies his way through the presidency like he has in his businesses. Lies to his supporters because he knows they will believe him. It’s his behavioral style. It’s the only one he knows. I wear my MAFTA cap. Make American Free of Trump Again. Hurry November, hurry.