Bryan HanselOne of the weirdest things in the US is that Supreme Court Justices only need 51 of 100 Senate votes to be put into a lifetime position — earned or not — but officers in the military need 100 of 100 votes to get a promotion that they earned and one nut job senator can prevent the promotion. That's a broken rule that should be changed.
Matthew Abbott@bryanhansel Sadly, the issue is that those officers *could* go through a process similar to SCOTUS nominees. It’s just that the process involves extra steps through committees and back to the main body, which is a silly amount of “advice and consent” for something so directly under the executive branch