The U.S. Senate is really ready to be giving up all their power? Can we not rely on them to be a little greedy for their own power? Acquiescing to the President can make them just a rubber stamp, like the russian duma, and effectively powerless.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/11/gop-trump-republicans-senate-gaetz-rfk-scary.html

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The Disturbing Reason Senate Republicans Might Greenlight All of Trump’s Nominees

Fear of Trump by traditional Republicans will cost us dearly.

Slate
Conservatives don't play by the rules. Remember how they always would insist on a supermajority, so often that the press wouldn't even mention the GOP spitting on historic Senate norms. Now their refusal to accept bodily autonomy is destroying our military, which they love so much, they proclaim.
#military #holds #tuberville #destroy #readiness #ability to #recruit #new #hires #nominations #confirmations #house #senate https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2023/11/14/democrats-advance-plan-to-force-quick-vote-on-military-nominations/
Democrats advance plan to force quick vote on military nominations

The plan still needs support from Republican senators before the military leadership posts can be filled.

Military Times

The result is frustration among senior #Pentagon leaders & Democratic lawmakers who say Tuberville’s procedural #blockade is hurting #operations & creating hardship for #MilitaryFamilies, who are in limbo until the assignments are approved, waiting the move to their next #posts. But #Tuberville is unconvinced that his move poses any serious #military #readiness issues….

#Senate #Republican #TommyTuberville #blocks #confirmations #promotions #obstruction #Defense #DOD #abortion #AbortionAccess

#Tuberville, first threatened to #block #military #nomination votes on the #Senate floor late last year & halted all #confirmations & senior #promotions starting in early March. There are now 186 #uniformed & #civilian #nominees stalled as a result of the move, & more expected in coming weeks.

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No end in sight to Senate fight over military nominations

Nearly 200 nominations have been stalled over one senator's objections to military abortion policies.

Military Times

#Senate #Republicans #MarshaBlackburn (R-TN) & #ThomTillis (R-NC), of the #SenateJudiciaryCommittee say they’ll #obstruct a temp replacement for Sen #DianneFeinstein (D-CA), whose extended health-related absence has stalled #confirmations of Pres #Biden’s judicial nominees. Only judges w/some Republican support can move to the floor w/o her tiebreaking vote.

#GOPobstruction #SenateGOP #Judiciary
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/04/17/dianne-feinstein-senate-judiciary-replacement/

Senate Republicans will try to block Feinstein’s Judiciary replacement

Another Republican senator on the Judiciary Committee announced opposition to temporarily replacing Dianne Feinstein on the committee, complicating Democrats' path forward.

The Washington Post