Donald Trump Already Setting Up A Potential Constitutional Crisis Over His Appointments
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The incoming president doesn't seem to care if his nominees can't win Senate confirmation.
WASHINGTON ― Four years after sending a violent mob to the U.S. Capitol to coerce Congress into giving him a second term despite his election loss, Donald Trump is again trying to bully lawmakers, this time by demanding they adjourn and let him bypass their constitutional role if they will not quickly confirm his choices for his administration.
The test cases could be Matt Gaetz, a former congressman being investigated by his colleagues over accusations of having sex with a high school student, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a conspiracy theorist and vaccine opponent.
The former and soon-to-be-president wants Gaetz to be attorney general and Kennedy as secretary of health and human services.
“Both the Gaetz appointment and the RFK appointment are sort of as a ‘fuck you’ to America,” said Ty Cobb, a lawyer in Trump’s White House during his first term who, like many others who had worked for Trump, now see him as a threat to democracy. “He’s not trying to show anyone who’s boss…. It’s actually more to see what impediments he has to supremacy.”
Trump said this week that if senators won’t confirm his nominees, then the Senate should get out of his way so he can make “recess appointments” ― effectively telling senators to abdicate one of their core responsibilities under the Constitution.
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