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Trump's Bold Strategy: Reviving Recess Appointments for 2024?
Ever pondered whether recess appointments are a clever tactic or just a constitutional loophole exploited by presidents? Join us as we challenge the status quo with a bold examination of Donald Trump's recent push to revitalize this age-old practice. Navigate through the historical roots and modern implications of recess appointments, unraveling the intrigue behind this political maneuver used by leaders across the spectrum. Despite its origins in a slow-paced world, this method still stirs a fierce debate about the balance between executive agility and congressional oversight. Our discussion paints a vivid picture of how this tool has evolved from necessity to a controversial strategy in today's fast-paced political arena.
This episode doesn't shy away from controversy, spotlighting figures like Matt Gaetz amidst ethical storms, and dissecting the Supreme Court's stance on presidential powers during the Obama era. With the backdrop of Trump's anticipated 2024 triumph, we explore the strategic chess game of placing loyalists like Pete Hegseth and Tulsi Gabbard in pivotal positions, potentially reshaping the military and Department of Justice. As the political landscape shifts, you're invited to consider the broader implications of these appointments and what they mean for the future of American governance. Tune in for a compelling narrative that questions the essence of power, loyalty, and the ever-persistent tug-of-war in the corridors of power.
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Speaker 4:Hello Patriots, welcome to the show. We got a great show today for you. Recess Appointments is on the menu. The left is melting down that donald trump has made the suggestion that recess appointments would be a an option that is on the table now. Why, why and what is a recess appointment? So here's the tweet that started it all. That caused everybody to lose their minds and crawl into a little corner and start screaming at the top of their lungs, crying.
Speaker 4:This is Donald Trump's tweet that he put out on Twitter. Any Republican senator seeking the coveted leadership position in the United States Senate must agree to recess appointments in the Senate, without which we will not be able to get people confirmed in a timely manner. Sometimes the votes can take two years or more. This is what they did four years ago and we cannot let it happen again. We need positions filled immediately. Additionally, no judges should be approved during this period of time, because the Democrats are looking to ram through their judges as the Republicans fight over leadership. This is not acceptable. Thank you. That is the tweet that he put out, causing people to lose their minds. So a recess appointment is a. It's article two, section two, clause three of the united states constitution where the president has authority to do appointments if the senate is in recess because the government needs to run. Is that, if donald trump goes through with this, is this a legal way to do it? Well, yes, yes and no, and I'll explain that in a minute here. But the most important factor to understand is he is not the only president to ever do this.
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Speaker 4:So the notion that recess appointments is some tyrannical action by the president of the United States is nonsense. Okay, do I agree with recess appointments? Absolutely not, and I'll explain that. But first here's a chart of previous presidents that did do recess appointments, and here it is Kennedy did 53,. Lyndon Johnson 36 recess appointments. Nixon 41, ford 12,. Jimmy Carter 68,. Ronald Reagan 232,. George Bush 78, clinton 139, bush 171, obama 32.
Speaker 4:Now, a recess appointment is permitted under the Constitution of the United States, but the spirit of the law is a little bit different than what we're trying to do here. Okay, so, essentially, if the year is 1800 and we didn't have planes and we didn't have horse and all we had were horse and buggies, didn't have cars, and you were a Senator that lived in Georgia and you had to get to Washington DC by the time you got a letter in the mail that would take I don't know weeks, maybe a month, that you needed to come to Congress to have a special hearing for an appointment or something the government needed to run, and if the president had somebody he had to appoint in a situation it had to happen quickly, right? So the recess appointment clause here it is Article 2, section 2, clause 3. The president shall have power to fill up all vacancies that may happen during the recess of the Senate by granting commissions which shall expire at the end of their next session. Okay, okay, the recess appointments clause authorizing the president to make temporary appointments when the Senate is not in session was adopted by the Constitutional Convention without dissent than a supplement for the purpose of establishing an auxiliary method of appointment in cases to which the Senate was not in session and therefore unable to perform its advice and consult function. In addition to fostering administrative continuity, presidents have exercised authority under the recess appointments clause for political purposes, appointing officials who might have difficulty securing Senate confirmation. This has happened multiple times over the past.
Speaker 4:However, the left has painted Donald Trump as some tyrannical Hitler. He's literally a Nazi. Even though we're going to do a peaceful transfer of power, which doesn't make any sense to turn over a government to literally Hitler. I don't know If you really believe that. I think you would fight a little bit harder. So the notion that this is somehow out of the norm is ludicrous. But that's what you're going to hear from the left. You're going to hear oh my God, he is just vacating Congress, he's vacating the Senate and he is just going to instill his will onto the American people.
Speaker 4:Okay, obviously, the spirit of the law is that if Congress is in recess and a appointment needs to be made, then the president can do that in order to get the government to run Right, no-transcript, the advisory function and the vetting function of the Senate.
Speaker 4:It's meant to be a check and balance so that the Senate can verify and check the people that the president is putting up. It's a critical part of our system. Both sides of the aisle have done this. I don't agree with it, but it's when politicians have any loophole they're going use it, um, to benefit themselves and get through what they need to get through. Now is this situation with donald trump different? Yes, 100 different, and I will tell you why. Because the bureaucrats have corrupted the system so greatly that the intent of donald trump to get these people in there is to gut the bureaucratic system and shut the whole corruption down. So the system is so intertwined with the Senate that senators are already talking about not confirming the president's appointments, even though the Republicans have the majority, where it really shouldn't be a problem here. Listen to this.
Speaker 5:I just think it's silly. I believe that the president is probably rewarding him for being such a loyal soldier to the president, but the president is smart enough and his team is smart enough to know that Mr Gates will never get confirmed by the Senate. Mr Gates breaks things to breaks things and then once he breaks it, he breaks it even more, and that is somebody who should not be the attorney general of the United States. I can tell you I'm not the only one out of 200 and probably 22 that we'll end up with that is happy that he is leaving this conference. Okay, I just think.
Speaker 4:So there's the Senator talking that he is not going to. They're not going to. Basically, the Senate is not going to confirm Matt Gaetz. It's a waste of time. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah blah. I don't think that's true. I think there is a lot of talk, there is a lot of nonsense during these times when there's political controversy, but when it comes time to put up and shut up, that they're going to confirm Matt Gaetz. But Donald Trump sees it as so important, so imperative, that he is going to utilize this recess appointments in order to get these people in there to clean out the bureaucrats. Here is NBC on recess appointments.
Speaker 3:Very quickly, because we're almost out of time. Of course, President-elect Trump has floated the idea of recess appointments. Would you vote to approve recess appointments? Is that something you would support?
Speaker 6:Yeah, if it became the last option, it is very difficult to get there. Remember, underneath Article 2, section 3, the president does have the right to call us into recess if we can't agree. And that means if we get bogged down and, let's say, hakeem Jeffries in the House is holding up some of the Senate or some of the not the Senate confirmations, but some of the stuff that's going on in the House, it not to do with confirmations. Or if we deal with Chuck Schumer in the Senate with confirmations, the president does have the right to call us into recess. However, it's very difficult to get that done because in 2014, obama did this, republicans took him to court and underneath the Cannon case, and we actually won.
Speaker 6:So there's some cases out there that shows that this wouldn't be temporary. First of all, we'd have to be in recess for 10 days. Both houses would agree to be in recess for 10 days before the first appointment. The appointment would be temporary, meaning it would only be at least two years or until the next Congress goes in, and so we'd still have to go through the confirmation period anyway. So it would be absolute last resort. But if that's what we have to do to get the confirmation. Uh through, then absolutely let's do it, but I would say that would be last option. Thanks for watching.
Speaker 4:stay up so you heard it. It is an option that's on the table now. What he is saying in regards to um, the barack obama did this right. The republicans did take it to the supreme court. The supreme court said that in order for this to be um to work, the senate has to be in recess for 10 days or more. You can't just be like, okay, we're going on a lunch break and now the president, united states, is getting all of his people in and they still have to get um confirmed after they come back in session. So, in effect, two years later, right, um, that donald trump the people would still have to go through. However, they would have temporarily been in the um position and already vetted themselves, and it would be much more practical impractical to remove them from the position.
Speaker 4:But Matt Gaetz has not made a lot of friends in Congress or the Senate. He's been a disruptor. He's been the guy who ousted the Speaker of the House. He led that. He has been an adamant, loyal supporter of Donald Trump and continued to be by his side and even nominated him as the Speaker of the House during one of the nomination periods for Speaker of the House. So it's going to be hard for Matt Gaetz to get through there.
Speaker 4:There was a Department of Justice investigation into him as it pertains to sex trafficking, which no charges were filed. There was a House committee formed ethics committee that has a report ready. However, the second that Matt Gaetz was appointed as the Attorney General, he resigned from Congress because, according to Matt Gaetz and Mike Johnson, florida law there's a certain amount of time. It was best for him to resign immediately so that he could get his replacement into Congress and they would not lose a Republican seat. But it is a little coincidental that now that he's gone, the ethics committee report is going to be sealed and Mike Johnson said that it's going to be sealed.
Speaker 4:Should it be released? I think it should be released, especially during a Senate confirmation hearing. Let both sides hear the results of the ethics investigation and decide for themselves. Mike Johnson has said this is going to open Pandora's box and it's going to cause more problems than it's going to resolve. On the one hand, he was acquitted by the Justice Department and no charges were filed. On the other hand, there is an ethics committee that does have a report. I am of the notion that yeah, hell, yeah, full, send it. Let's see it. I want to see it before he becomes the next attorney general. However, it does not look like it's going to go that way.
Speaker 1:Hey there, Matt. Yeah, this was a very narrow ruling, but it was a loss.
Speaker 4:This is a Bloomberg report on the Supreme Court ruling with Barack Obama.
Speaker 1:Hey there, matt. Yeah, this was a very narrow ruling, but it was a loss for the Obama administration. At issue here is the president's power to make recess appointments that members of Congress did not approve. Now, in this case, we're talking about January 2012, when the president appointed three members to the National Labor Relations Board and Senate Republicans said wait a minute, we weren't even technically on a recess. So the court here is deciding that the president still does have the power to make those recess appointments, but saying that in this case, the administration did not respect the will of the Congress, that they actually weren't in recess.
Speaker 1:It also puts timeframes and limitations on what a recess is. So anything less than 10 days isn't going to be considered a recess. So a narrow ruling. There were some questions whether or not this presidential power was outdated. It's enumerated in the Constitution, it's listed in the Constitution, but that was the time, matt, of the horse and buggy era, where there could be a vacancy that needed to be filled at a moment's notice and it would have been difficult for people to communicate or get back on time. So there was some question that this would have been completely overturned. Again, a narrow ruling, but definitely a hit to the obama administration no, I mean in the the.
Speaker 4:The government needs to run right, so that it's a little absurd to say that, oh, we're going to remove this part of the like. That's not going to happen, they're not going to do that. Um, the supreme court's not going to overturn Section 2 of the Constitution. That would be absurd. However, the recess appointment thing is a serious option right now and you know we will see how that all pans out. Now. Here is Newsmax and here's a report and an opinion on the recess appointments.
Speaker 7:Tell me what is a recess appointment and what's the authority for it.
Speaker 3:The authority is the Constitution, but it was designed only to assure that the government can run efficiently. It wasn't designed as a way of circumventing the power of the Senate to either confirm or fail to confirm a nominee. And there are at least three justices on the current Supreme Court, including the chief justice, who has raved out about whether or not a whether a president can use a recess appointment to circumvent the will of the Senate. And so if the president decides to use these kinds of interim appointments, this case is going to be taken to the Supreme Court.
Speaker 4:It will be taken to the Supreme Court if it goes that way. Do I think it's going to go that way? I do think that there's a possibility. I think there's going to be a ton of pushback. I think a lot of bureaucrats have a lot of dirt on a lot of members of Senate or the Congress that are going to jam it up and try to do everything in their power to keep some of these appointments out of there. Like Pete Hegseth as the Secretary of Defense, like Matt Gaetz as the Attorney General, these are people that are going to ineffectively gut the United States government of its excessive people of agencies. You know Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy are in charge of the Department of Government Efficiency, where they're going to make recommendations to the president about completely just removing agencies. There's 450 federal agencies give or take and Elon and Vivek are they want to get rid of. So the issue is that there's a lot of very powerful people who are terrified of losing their jobs.
Speaker 7:All right. So the Senate sometimes goes out of session.
Speaker 4:Three hundred and fifty one.
Speaker 7:So that would be the recess, so they couldn't confirm, they couldn't confirm a nominee. But OK, so tell me this what's the difference between a recess appointment and someone who the president names is sort of like acting Secretary of State or acting Attorney General?
Speaker 3:Well, an acting person is called acting whereas a recess appointment. You're the Attorney General of the United States and have all the powers. Look, both these processes are intended to solve an emergency. To remember, at the time the Constitution was passed, you had to go to Washington by horse and buggy and the president couldn't just call the Senate to session, or the president of the Senate couldn't call the president. It would take sometimes weeks and months and the government would be without important, say, secretaries of state or secretaries of the army. It was never intended by the framers of the Constitution to give the president the power to circumvent the power of the Senate to either confirm or not confirm nominees. And if President Trump decides to use this power to nominate nominees who might not get 50 votes, the case will be taken to the Supreme Court and it's entirely possible the Supreme Court will put limits on that power.
Speaker 4:The power is essentially already limited. It is clear what the intention of the article is right. It's clear as day when you read it. This is politicians trying to find loopholes to get their things done. That's what they do. That's why we try to limit their power as much as possible and limit loopholes as much as possible. The intent is not for the president to circumvent Congress or the Senate, which is obviously what many presidents have done. It's not just Donald Trump. Barack Obama did it. It was taken to the Supreme Court. Ronald Reagan did it more than anybody. This is they're going to do things to get, to get their agenda pushed through. It's, I mean, that's what politicians do, and if you give them an avenue to do it, they're going to use that avenue.
Speaker 7:But just so I'm clear, is that you know we have recess appointments and every and presidents have been doing it for a long time. Is that you know we have recess appointments and every and presidents have been doing it for a long time? But but oftentimes someone is like, say, the attorney general resigns and then there's an acting attorney general who has the same authority. So it seems to me that in some ways the recess appointment and the acting are the same, but no one squawks about when there's an acting.
Speaker 3:When there's an acting, well, they should. If an acting appointment lasts for two years, which an appointment could last, because under the Constitution it's until the next session of Congress you could fill a vacancy, and indeed, right now they're not vacancies, they're going to be appointments that are being done at the beginning of the administration, and I just don't think that the framers of the Constitution intended a new president to be able to circumvent the congressional will, and so I hope that President Trump makes his nominations. Let them go to committees and let them go to confirmation. You know, if the confirmation process takes too long and the national security is at risk, then you can make interim appointments of various sorts, but that's not what's happening here.
Speaker 4:Yeah, 100. And that's exactly what I'm trying to say. That's exactly what I'm trying to convey. That is not what's happening. Exactly what I'm trying to convey. That is not what's happening. Um, they're trying to use this as a loophole to get their appointments in without Congress, um, congress's approval. Now, msnbc, ironically, uh, because they don't understand history uh are calling this recess appointment by Donald Trump a weak leader tool, even though their Lord and Savior, barack Obama, did it. They're refusing. Just watch this.
Speaker 8:The scale of Donald Trump's victory in the 2024 election is coming into fuller focus. Breaking of the weekend Trump is projected to be the winner in Arizona, completing a complete sweep of all seven battleground states. Combined that with control of the Senate, republicans are projected to hold at least 52 seats and quite possibly control of the House, which has not been called yet, but Republicans it's been called.
Speaker 8:They're currently just five seats short of the majority there. Donald Trump is now likely to return to Washington with a trifecta, to say nothing of the six to three conservative majority in the third branch of government. We are, of course, talking about the Supreme Court, giving Trump a potentially unprecedented grip on all the levers of political power.
Speaker 4:It's not unprecedented. It's happened multiple times in history. This is really nothing new. It's not unprecedented. It's happened multiple times in history.
Speaker 8:This is really nothing new, all of which makes one of his first announcements as president elect. Puzzling. Trump is demanding that whoever takes the reins of the GOP caucus in the Senate agree to allow recess appointments to his cabinet. In other words, to allow Donald Trump to bypass Senate confirmation Again a Senate controlled by Republicans of all of his picks. That's despite the fact that Trump likely has a commanding majority for approval of any of his nominations.
Speaker 8:Now on the topic of recess appointments, cnn reports this quote recess appointments were once controversial last ditch efforts for presidents to install their nominees after facing long confirmation odds in the Senate. President George W Bush appointed John Bolton as US ambassador to the United Nations via a recess appointment, for example, as it was unlikely he would have made it through the Senate. President Obama's attempt to use recess appointment power wound up at the Supreme Court. Supreme Court ruled against President Obama and in favor of the GOP led Senate. They said Obama's appointments were unconstitutional. Just begs the question this morning right, why would such a strong, powerful president demand the use of such a weak tool used by weak presidents Weak for the three contenders to be the Senate majority leader? Weak tool used by weak presidents.
Speaker 4:Weak presidents.
Speaker 4:As for the three contenders to be the Senate majority leader, one it's already John Thune, so we know that it is not Rick Scott, even though I wish that it was, because we wouldn't really, if Rick Scott was in charge, you would most likely probably not have to worry about recess appointments. It is just a tool that multiple presidents have used. It is something that I don't agree with, and that's okay. I'm not going to agree with Donald Trump on everything. I had told you that when we have these conversations, I'm going to be honest. I'm going to call it out when it's wrong. Ronald Reagan did it, it was wrong. Then George Bush did it. It was wrong. Then Gerald Ford did it. It was wrong. Then Barack Obama did it. It was wrong, then even verified by the Supreme Court. Can he do this and get away with it? Yeah, he can. I mean presidents, multiple presidents have. The only stipulation is that it has to be in recess for 10 days. If they get a majority vote to go into recess, he can make his appointments while they're going in recess. If they can't agree on appointing um, his, his people, like pete uh hegsek or matt gates or tulsi gabbard or any of then they could just agree to go into recess and then he could just appoint them. Yeah, it's a loophole. I mean it's there to be used. It's not illegal, it's not the act of tyranny. It does go against, I think, the principal motive of Article 2 from the founders, particularly the Federalist Paper 67 by Alexander Hamilton, who I'm not a major fan of. But the checks and balances are important. However, I think that Donald Trump and the Republicans are going to do anything that they can do to get this through. This is they have a lot of backing. They won the House, they won the Senate, they have the Supreme Court and they won the popular vote. They have a mandate from the American people to change Washington DC for the good.
Speaker 4:The people that Donald Trump has chosen to do this are the ones that are going to get it done. Pete Hegseth is going to remove all of the wokeness from the military. He's going to remove DEI from the military. He's going to get back to creating war fighters and building a department of defense that is worthy of respect across the country and not laughed at. Matt Gaetz is going to annihilate the DOJ. People are going to lose their jobs left and right. There's going to be investigations into the lawfare that was used by the Biden administration, the Biden DOJ to go after its political opponents. People are going to get arrested. People are going to go to jail.
Speaker 4:These people in there are very terrified. They have a lot of power. They have a lot of political connections. They have a lot of dirt on senators and congress people. That's, that's how washington works. I need you to vote for this or I'm going to tell everybody about that time. We went to this party and you hit on that girl and you're married, or whatever. However it goes, they're going to leak information to the press. You're going to see an onslaught of just dragging their names through the mud, which we have already seen with matt gates, pete hegseth and tulsi gabbard or anybody that at a point that that he tries to appoint in. In the end, I do think that these people are going to be appointed. If not, there are other people that will be appointed that will do the same job. What Donald Trump does not want to do this time is be faced with people that he appointed last time, that didn't do what he tried to do, and back up what his mission was. So he's putting people in place that are extremely loyal. That's what he's looking for loyal people who are loyal to the movement, who are loyal to the cause, who are going to get the job done.
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