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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/08/opinion/trump-attorney-general-sessions-unconstitutional.html
Neal Katyal and George Conway, writing in the New York Times:
President Trumps installation of Matthew Whitaker as acting attorney general of the United States after forcing the resignation of Jeff Sessions is unconstitutional. Its illegal. And it means that anything Mr. Whitaker does, or tries to do, in that position is invalid.
Much of the commentary about Mr. Whitakers appointment has focused on all sorts of technical points about the Vacancies Reform Act and Justice Department succession statutes. But the flaw in the appointment of Mr. Whitaker, who was Mr. Sessionss chief of staff at the Justice Department, runs much deeper. It defies one of the explicit checks and balances set out in the Constitution, a provision designed to protect us all against the centralization of government power.
If you dont believe us, then take it from Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, whom President Trump once called his favorite sitting justice. Last year, the Supreme Court examined the question of whether the general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board had been lawfully appointed to his job without Senate confirmation. The Supreme Court held the appointment invalid on a statutory ground.
Justice Thomas agreed with the judgment, but wrote separately to emphasize that even if the statute had allowed the appointment, the Constitutions Appointments Clause would not have. The officer in question was a principal officer, he concluded. And the public interest protected by the Appointments Clause was a critical one: The Constitutions drafters, Justice Thomas argued, recognized the serious risk for abuse and corruption posed by permitting one person to fill every office in the government. Which is why, he pointed out, the framers provided for advice and consent of the Senate
grantcart
(53,061 posts)Will she start with Kelly Anne Conway or Justice Thomas?
stopbush
(24,396 posts)vocal masturbation setting up a simple story.
Raven
(13,891 posts)the differences between them are so profound, it just boggles the mind.
grantcart
(53,061 posts)Carville and Matalin didn't really publicly undermine each other.
dawg day
(7,947 posts)Tell you the truth, I think it's a mild marital conspiracy. They both loathe Trump, but she's making half the family income doing whatever the heck she does at the White House. So when she "lets" him do his op-ed thing, she's hoping she's saving her soul or her reputation. And they can tell the kids, "Mommy doesn't mean any of that stuff she says!"
octoberlib
(14,971 posts)who was a Assistant Attorney General ,said the same thing on MSNBC, Trump can't appoint even an interim AG unless they've been previously confirmed by the Senate in some other position.
grantcart
(53,061 posts)small point, Perez was one step below Deputy, Assistant Attorney General
octoberlib
(14,971 posts)Trump can do this.So I'm glad Conway and Katyal published this in the NYT.
stopbush
(24,396 posts)So some reporters have been reporting it.
octoberlib
(14,971 posts)Louis1895
(768 posts)So why doesn't someone file for an injunction?
grantcart
(53,061 posts)I would laugh so hard I would give my self a hernia and a tonsillectomy at the same time if Conway files and it is
Conway vs The Government of the United States.
octoberlib
(14,971 posts)libdem4life
(13,877 posts)am I the only one who is tired of "Kellyane's husband" label? Can't they at least call him G. Conway? He's the sane one, FFS, and deals in truth, law and learned justice.
Rant over. Carry on.
grantcart
(53,061 posts)My mind drafts it as "G. Conway" but my fingers insist on "Kellyane's husband".