President Obama will have one last chance to force Judge Merrick Garland onto the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday — but it’s a legal gamble and one that has so many pitfalls that even those who say he could get away with it believe it isn’t worth the fight.
Mr. Obama’s moment will come just before noon, in the five minutes that the Senate gavels the 114th Congress out of session and the time the 115th Congress begins.
In those few moments the Senate will go into what’s known as an “intersession recess,” creating one golden moment when the president could test his recess-appointment powers by sending Judge Garland to the high court.
A smattering of activists has asked him to give it a try, but Mr. Obama has given no indication that he’s thinking about it. The White House didn’t respond to a request for comment for this story.
The move would be a legal gamble under the high court’s last ruling in 2014 on recess appointments. That 9-0 decision overturned a handful of Mr. Obama’s early 2012 picks, saying the Senate was actually in session when the president acted, so he couldn’t use his powers.
Better not.
I wouldn’t put anything past this phag
He will.
Even Obama has to be laughing at that fake news.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but don’t recess appointments still require senate confirmation once congress is back in session?
These lame duck terms last waaaayyyy too long when destructive commies are the lame ducks.
It’s already been ruled unconstitutional with his NLRB appointment and he ignored that, so yeah, fuck face will probably try it again.
He does know a thing or two about ramming.
We get heartburn from this guy all day, every
Day up until the last second of his presidency.
You’ll never convince he’s not an enemy imbed. Who but him could take such perverse joy in fucking over America?
Bad idea but i would not put anything past Obozo.
Someone needs to see that he’s occupied doing something else during those five minutes between Congressional sessions 114 and 115.
The guy is a big prick of course he will and congress will let it stand, cause he is a black man.
Then he will appoint himself president for life and that will also work.
He is all about the big screw you.
I’ve had people call me after midnight to ask if it was ok to switch over to the 3rd 69kV line to get the station up for the next day’s Redskin game. I’ve had people call me out at 3:00 in the morning because they weren’t sure of the proper sequencing of the variable-speed sewage pumps to assure that the toilets flowed in the Gaylord Hotel in National Harbor. I’ve been awaken to ask if the programming could be overrun at the Sewage Treatment Plant
yeah … it’s a bitch, at times … but I’d rather they call then ‘eff stuff up
(no wonder France is going troglodyte)
Two words to this freak: “DO IT!” Go ahead and do it, you weirdo, loony toon. You’ll go down in history as a retarded footnote, just like those WI state D’s who left the state to avoid the vote on the teachers’ union.
Arrest him ten minutes before and instruct the Senate to keep it open until one second before. Forget their stupid protocols. This will result in killing if it happens.
What I don’t understand, is why a bunch of Americans, one at a time, every day, don’t try to race toward the White House or wherever O is, to force a shut down. Every day. Drone fly-bys. Anything! Every day. Force shut-downs.
Only 17 days to go. Surely there must be 17 Americans willing to screw Obamas’ last 17 days in the White House. It’s not like O ain’t doing nothing. He’s obviously going full bore to screw the USA.
Maybe I’m too smart for my own good.
I’m seeing this on far too many leftist sites
to believe it. I think it is most likely BS, just
like all of the electoral college voters going
shrillary last month. BS. They think if they can keep
in the the media long enough it will become true.
Just like the Nazi, hey?
Thought headline said scrotum. Made more sense that way.
Obama is on CP time, so he’ll miss his chance.