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Quite a Day...

Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III
Trump wants Sessions out so he can get someone to fire Mueller, but is too cowardly to fire either of them himself. Or, maybe, he's just waiting for the August recess to actually begin to make a recess appointment. Whether he can make that appointment or not, is up to Mitch McConnell.
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.
ARTICLE II, SECTION 2, CLAUSE 3
The Constitution lays it out pretty clearly. But the Republicans used a maneuver to prevent that from happening when Obama was in the White House: They just don't go into "recess".

This went all the way to the Supreme Court which ruled that as long as the Senate was holding pro-forma sessions, they weren't in recess. The Senate did this by having the presiding Senator gavel the Senate into session every three days. The Supreme Court said you'd need at least a 10 day gap for it to be a "recess". They don't do anything in these pro-forma sessions, just open and close within seconds.

So will old Mitch do this to Donnie? I doubt it. The Dem's say they are looking to see if they can figure out a way to do it. I doubt they can too.

On the other front we finally heard Jared Kushner speak. A nice voice, but it sounds more like a teenager than a 36 year old man. Not anything he can do about it I guess.

The word is that Jared did pretty good in his closed door hearings. That undoubtedly means that he actually listens to what his attorney tells him. Vastly different from our fake president, who daily shows his incompetence and imperial view that he exists as an unfettered King.

He longs to be a Putin.

Putin just smiles.

And Mitch waits for the next shoe to drop...



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