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Trump Threatens to Adjourn Congress to Install Nominees. McConnell Demurs. (Published 2020)
The House and Senate have both taken extended recesses amid the pandemic, convening at least every few days for so-called pro forma sessions to keep their chambers technically in session.
The House and Senate have both taken extended recesses amid the pandemic, convening at least every few days for so-called pro forma sessions to keep their chambers technically in session.
He demanded that Republican leaders immediately call the Senate back into session to confirm them, or take a recess for an extended period of time so he could install stopgap appointees without a vote, a practice known as a recess appointment.
(Pro forma sessions) are routine in the Senate to prevent presidents from making recess appointments, which they can do if the Senate is in recess for 10 days or more.
If the Senate did not do his bidding, Mr. Trump said, he would use the “very strong power” afforded to him by the Constitution to force an adjournment. He appeared to be referring to Article II of the Constitution, which gives the president the power to adjourn Congress until a time of his choosing if the House and Senate are unable to agree on when they should go out of session.
um.. Werent the Repubs the ones that started the Pro Forma sessions to prevent Obama from doing recess appointments?
Now the shoe's on the other foot.
dont like it much, huh?
Also, Trump wanting to suspend Congress is a thinly veiled excuse in another step in trying to be dictator.
if successful, how long can Trump adjourn Congress for?
Forever???
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