Article II

[Jolly]

Can Trump do it?

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/04/15/president-trump-threatens-to-adjourn-congress-theyve-been-warned-and-theyre-being-warned-right-now/

[Mik]

Can he? Sure. Is it a good idea? He'd have to make an awfully strong case for why this is necessary at this time. Not sure he can do that.

[Jolly]

His case during the briefing yesterday, was that no President before him had had this many nominees slow-walked and the lack of people in these jobs was hurting government response to the current situation and recovery.

[Mik]

Were any Obama appointments slow walked?

[Jolly]

@Mik said in Article II:

Were any Obama appointments slow walked?

Absolutely. It's not a new practice. It's just gotten worse. Some of Trump's appointments have been languishing for almost three and a half years.

[Mik]

I'm not sure he can or should build a specific enough case related to the pandemic to withstand court challenges. 'By any means necessary' thinking is what brought us FISA, Mueller and impeachment.

[Jolly]

Then have them voted on.

Constitutional crisis averted.