Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) sent a warning shot to the White House on Wednesday night, saying he wouldn’t take up the nomination of any potential successor to Attorney General Jeff Sessions this year.
“Everybody in D.C. [should be] warned that the agenda for the Judiciary Committee is set for rest of 2017. Judges first subcabinet 2nd / AG no way,” Grassley said in a tweet on Wednesday evening.
Everybody in D.C. Shld b warned that the agenda for the judiciary Comm is set for rest of 2017. Judges first subcabinet 2nd / AG no way
— ChuckGrassley (@ChuckGrassley) July 27, 2017
Grassley is the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, and served with Sessions on the panel. He could effectively block any attorney general nominee from getting a hearing or a vote if Sessions were to be fired or step down—which he has not said he would do.
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Trump has also privately discussed using a recess appointment to try to name Sessions’s successor without having to get congressional approval, according to the Washington Post. A White House official told the Post that action isn’t “imminent.”
Congressional Democrats have pledged they will block such a move by forcing the Senate to hold pro-forma sessions, which would stymie any attempts by Trump to make a recess appointment.
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Senate Judiciary Chair warns Trump: My committee won't consider any new attorney general nominees this year https://t.co/AaVvrX51xQ pic.twitter.com/m6j9JFxH37
— The Hill (@thehill) July 27, 2017
Trump’s troubles are his own doing. He has no respect for either house of congress, then he wonders why they won’t cooperate with him.
On another forum I said I could not recall any past president having so many people come and go within the first 6 months or so of their presidency. Sure, in 4 or 8 years, people will come and go. But I bet this constant upheaval is unprecedented.
That this administration has had such a revolving door should be disturbing, but Trump supporters are unfazed. Or as their fearless leader has instructed them to do, they blame his troubles on everyone but their hero.
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