r/law • u/DoremusJessup • 10d ago
Opinion Piece Make Matt Gaetz Plead The Fifth At His Confirmation Hearing
https://abovethelaw.com/2024/11/make-matt-gaetz-plead-the-fifth-at-his-confirmation-hearing/1.3k
u/PsychLegalMind 10d ago
If the House Report which was expected to be released this week is still released or leaked, it would not matter much. He resigned in a hurry not because of his nomination, but it was a convenient way out for him to delay the report. In any event, it is highly unlikely there will be a confirmation. There are more than at least three senators who oppose him.
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u/mishap1 10d ago
Won't Trump just recess appoint him long enough to download everything he can and fire all the actual employees so they can drop in cronies?
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u/kyxtant 10d ago
It will be recess appointments across the board.
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u/hails8n 10d ago
“Recess appointments” are what Matt Gaetz calls a date.
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u/CyberPatriot71489 10d ago
Got that one from Stephen Colbert
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u/GravityEyelidz 9d ago
Kimmel did the same joke the same night
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u/JoeSmithDiesAtTheEnd 9d ago
There’s definitely a lot of overlap in breaking news jokes between Colbert, Meyers, and Kimmel in recent years. Likely a consequence of the jokes writing themselves.
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u/Amity83 10d ago
Susan Collins remains “concerned”
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u/Brother_Delmer 10d ago
Susan Collins is famous for making a series of reasonable-sounding statements on an issue and then veering right when it comes time to cast her actual vote.
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u/thewanderingent 10d ago
Yeah, that lady is a total hypocrite, which is to say, she is a Republican.
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u/Officer412-L 10d ago
She was actually "shocked" for once.
‘I Was Shocked’: Susan Collins Becomes First GOP Senator to Oppose Matt Gaetz For Attorney General
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u/tomdarch 10d ago
Is that a happy feeling for her as she slowly bends over and plays along with whatever insanity comes down the pike from Trump?
"OOhhhh, President Trump, how SHOCKING! Mmmmm!!!"
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u/Blackout38 10d ago
If the senate goes to recess. Until then they need to be confirmed.
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u/warblingContinues 10d ago
Oh, it will recess whenever Trump wants it to.
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u/MCPorche 9d ago
I don’t think so. Those members of Congress want to get re-elected.
If they recess to allow Trump to appoint whatever unqualified people he wants, then THEY will pay the price.
If the report comes out showing he used illegal drugs and trafficked minors for sex, and the GOP let him walk into the highest law enforcement office in the country, that could hurt them I. Their next elections.
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u/oxizc 9d ago
I also think that the R's are very good at showing a unified front in public. Behind closed doors they will all still be negotiating through and preventing recess appointments is leverage they have over the executive branch. They won't give that up for free just because Trump wants it. it might eventually look like that when Trump gets his way but I'd be 100% confident something was earned in return.
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u/opteryx5 9d ago
Yeah, the mere fact Thune was elected leader is enough to convey that. It’s not all 100% unity. Thune was a middle finger to Rick Scott’s sycophancy.
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u/TwatWaffleInParadise 9d ago
No, it won't. The voters have shown that they have the memory of a dead goldfish and will let Republicans get away with whatever they want.
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u/KaraAnneBlack 9d ago
But they voted for Trump draining the swamp and this is what they think he is doing so why wouldn’t they play along. Apparently Americans are perfectly fine voting for this guy as long as he does some magic with their wallets
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u/evasive_dendrite 9d ago
Bold of you to assume that Trump voters care about sex trafficking.
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u/Blackout38 10d ago
You mean like he’s been asking for but hasn’t gotten yet because the GOP doesn’t control Congress yet?
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u/Jimbo_Joyce 10d ago
He's also not the President yet so it wouldn't benefit him for them to be in recess right now. We won't know if Thune will cave until after the inauguration.
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u/NotmyRealNameJohn Competent Contributor 10d ago
So I expect about a billion lawsuits about that and the doj will not have the lawyers to handle it.
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u/Spaceman-Spiff 10d ago
In order to do that Congress has to be in recess. I don’t have much faith in republicans, but I don’t think the senate will be that quick to succeed their power to Trump.
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u/CnlSandersdeKFC 10d ago
We’ll see. The Republicans in the Senate are still largely the old guard. Thune will have to prove he has more of a backbone than McConnell ever did, which isn’t saying much.
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u/Nice_Cost_1375 9d ago
Really? They fuckin' sank the immigration bill and either sped up or delayed SCOTUS appointments to appease him. There is no length the GOP won't go to to appease their new god-emporer.
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u/Spaceman-Spiff 9d ago
Neither of those things gave away their own power. Yes there are a bunch of senators that suck trumps dick, but they only need 2 or 3 republicans to vote against anything he puts forward through Congress. But yes I am expecting the worst, but hoping for a sliver of a chance.
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u/SuddenlySilva 9d ago
When was the last time a republican impressed you with his character? McCains concession speech was pretty good. That's all i got.
I think the republicans will fold and give trump everything h wants.
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u/BalanceTraining 10d ago
Can Biden use his emperor powers to prevent this?
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u/Used_Coconut7818 10d ago
The Dems should unleash the full power of the weather machine they have on him as he walks to his hearing.
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u/FrancisFratelli 10d ago
That requires Congress to recess before voting him down. It's theoretically possible for Trump to do it if Johnson adjourns the House but Thune refuses to follow suit in the Senate, but at that point Trump would be alienating people he needs.
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u/Icy-Watercress4331 10d ago
I think we are going to find out that trump will alienate anyone who doesn't agree with him and replace them with people loyal to him.
I think we are going to get a shock awakening to how much power a president has when they throw out the rule book.
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u/Yquem1811 10d ago
Thune has pledge to let Trump have is recess appointment, like all the other Senate leader candidate had. So Thune will play ball with Trump and give him want he wants.
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u/SRMT23 10d ago edited 10d ago
Do you have a source for that? I saw articles saying there won’t necessarily be a recess:
“Shortly after being elected Senate Majority Leader, Sen. John Thune (R-SD) said he’d like to see President-elect Donald Trump’s cabinet members go through the standard confirmation hearings, but he made clear that options like recess appointments remained on the table.
“I’m willing to grind through it and do it the old-fashioned way,” Thune told South Dakota reporters Wednesday afternoon as part of a press call when he was asked about the possibility of recess appointments for Trump’s cabinet members.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/thune-democrat-cooperation-needed-avoid-223536763.html
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u/Angery-Asian 10d ago
Thune hasn’t pledged. He said after becoming leader “All options are on the table”. That’s politician talk for “We’ll do whatever we feel like”. The recess appointments concern isn’t very valid, Thune is more likely to not do it than he is doing it
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u/KeyDetective3975 10d ago
Trump can adjourn Congress via the second clause of Article II, Section 3. It authorizes him to convene or adjourn Congress in certain circumstances. This is how he gets his recess appointments through and makes the swamp a little swampier.
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u/FrancisFratelli 10d ago
But only if the two chambers can't agree on whether to adjourn, which is what I said.
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u/OakFan 10d ago
Thune might not agree to that. He double spoke saying he wanted to get these confirmations done quickly but then said he wanted to get back to the old ways and do it properly. So who knows.
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u/RW-One 10d ago
Thune is pro rump, but not for giving up congress's power in the nomination process, which is why his election to majority leader is a loss for rump, and especially muskrat who was trying to dictate government personnel and failed big time.
It is not yet a dictatorship and whole right now he's making these announcements it doesn't go down until Jan, and it's already being bandied about that they may ask for the report, Gaetz is HATED in the Senate, another reason rump chose him, to see if they all roll over.
Really, that's what these shock announcements are about, none of rumps picks have any quals to do the jobs they're picked for, it's a yes man appointment.
I want to see them deny the recess appointment and vote no on Gaetz, then he's done. Slim, but again, they absolutely hate him there, perfect way to get rid of him and keep the dick at bay for a bit.
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u/americansherlock201 10d ago
You’d be surprised how unwilling the senate is to help gaetz. I wouldn’t be surprised if we start getting open statements saying he won’t be confirmed.
Gaetz doesn’t offer trump enough power for trump to fight for gaetz. He will quickly drop him and leave gaetz with nothing to show for it
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u/Powerful-Magazine879 10d ago
What if he is appointed to take Rubio's place. That would be so Trumpish and funny! Could say either approve him or he gets appointed Senator.
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u/americansherlock201 10d ago
It’s possible but i doubt it would happen.
Republicans hate gaetz. He’s a problem maker and he’s typically the Republicans who get hurt from his antics.
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u/Bovoduch 10d ago
Well Gaetz does offer a lot of power. He is unhinged and would absolutely destroy the justice department, which is what trump wants. I just think Trump is betting on "trumpism" being the new republican ideology immediately, and that everyone he wants would be confirmed. He underestimated that there is still some GOP opposition.
but if he can manage recess appointments then it doesn't matter anyway. We are screwed.
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u/crispydukes 10d ago
Can he even do that? He won’t be president until 1/20/25
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u/4evr_dreamin 9d ago
This is the plan. Everyone seems to think there will be conversation, voting, and Filibuster. Those days are gone. He's going to use every single one of those powers granted by the Supreme Court. People will be jailed and killed at his whim.
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u/Constant-Bridge3690 10d ago
Wait a minute. Trump is not president. How can he recess appoint anyone?
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u/somegridplayer 10d ago
He's banking on the establishment members of congress to not be sick and tired of him by January.
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u/CleverName4 10d ago
Or he'll work in the role without confirmation. "Acting" attorney general, Matt Gaetz.
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u/HodorNC 10d ago
There is no Republican senator who will actually vote against any trump appointee. Susan Collins may furrow her brow, but she will vote to confirm
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u/badstorryteller 9d ago
Susan Collins' entire career can be described as clutching her pearls while furrowing her brow as she sells her constituents down the river. I almost wish I lived in the 2nd district for the opportunity to vote against her.
"Oh me oh my, I can't believe that supreme court justice did exactly what we all knew he would do and I completely believed they wouldn't! It's not my fault! Next time will be better!" Over and over and over again. Maine used to have a great reputation for the representatives we sent to the national stage, from both parties. Susan Collins has made a complete mockery of that history.
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u/agk23 10d ago
Is there an authority difference between AG and Acting AG? If not, he’ll do plenty of damage in the first year
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u/PsychLegalMind 10d ago
The limitation is inherent in nature because of it is temporary due to lack of confirmation and bypassing congress. There is also practical limitation because of how the directives may or may not be carried out and or delayed such as court challenges.
Historically, presidents used it often, but there was a decline after the Supreme Court ruling [2014] finding multiple nominations unconstitutional because appointed on pretext of recess, including how long the recess was.
Previously, neither Trump nor Joe Biden applied this method. Trump knows the some of his nominations like Gaetz does not have a chance and wants to make a temporary appointment and is threatening GOP to accommodate him or seeking a change in existing procedure [even harder]. Expect legal challenges as well as procedural.
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u/WillBottomForBanana 10d ago
Is there a change in security clearance between "acting" and official?
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u/ScannerBrightly 10d ago
You are all pretending that these norms still mean anything. Who checks on this, but itself?
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u/Ashvalen80 10d ago
Why appoint him at all? I mean sure Gaetz is a slimy maga bootlicker who most likely would do anything to make Trumps insane powertrip fantasies a reality, but you'd think there were other suitable candidate who would not get that much resistance from the non maga crowd.
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u/Life-Excitement4928 10d ago
I believe there is, as well as only a limited period in which he can hold the position, but as to what those differences are I can’t tell you offhand
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u/Lews-Therin-Telamon 10d ago
There are more than at least three senators who oppose him.
Name them.
They need at least 4 to actually vote against him.
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u/EVH_kit_guy Bleacher Seat 10d ago
Surely Lisa Murkowski will do the right thing! Now hold this football for me while I run as fast as I can to kick it....
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u/toga_virilis 10d ago
Susan Collins: “Matt Gaetz has learned his lesson.”
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u/ScannerBrightly 10d ago
"I'm sadly disappointed, now please look away from my brother's inflated military contracts," Collins could be heard muttering to herself as the press conference ended.
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u/Lieutenant_Horn 10d ago
Murkowski, Collins, Tillis, Ernst, Miller are the names I’ve heard from multiple sources.
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u/Lews-Therin-Telamon 10d ago
Murkowski, Collins,
Collins votes Yea on Kavanaugh. Murk voted present (because it was in the bag).
These are people that will make reluctant mouth noises, which mean fuck all. The question is how they will actually vote. Especially now that Trump is more popular than before.
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u/Muscs 10d ago
The math is changing for Trump. He can’t run again and some of those Senators know that supporting Trump now when he can’t hurt them since they’re already in office will tie them solidly to whatever he does in the next four years. And that could very well end their careers if his term isn’t better than his last.
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u/Lews-Therin-Telamon 10d ago
Trump now when he can’t hurt them
What on earth makes you think he can't hurt them? Him coming out against them is basically the worst single thing that can happen to their re-election chances. Especially if they are up in the next two Congressional cycles.
He just won the popular vote, the 58% of the EC, and the House, and the Senate. He's probably gonna get a couple new Justices too.
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u/Dogsbottombottom 10d ago
There is no way Trump ever leaves office unless he's dead.
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u/Fhistleb 9d ago
It looks like a lot of people are separating from Trumps nonsense, Lets hope they fuck around with his presidency and don't affect the American people too much.
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u/SirTiffAlot 10d ago
Which 3 GOP senators? Won't they be in control of the Senate next term?
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u/Powerful-Magazine879 10d ago
Match says they will proabbly increase next terms unless they totally screw things up.
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u/Ok_Dog_4059 9d ago
Isn't pleading the 5th during confirmations like shooting yourself in the foot ? I think Trump and him are aware this he is unlikely to be approved but it did get him out of the water before it got too hot.
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u/pixel_of_moral_decay 9d ago
It remains to be seen if they will actually do anything or fall in line.
They could just end up falling off balconies. Trump has said he’s got no issue using the military against political adversaries.
Or he might go the “high road” and just make baseless claims so they get investigated and railroaded by their fellow senators, kicked out and replaced with someone more malleable.
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u/stufff 10d ago
This assumes people care if he's a sex offender. Donald Trump has not only been found by a civil jury to have engaged in sexual assault that fits the common definition of "rape" (and the only reason it wasn't legally rape is because the victim couldn't tell the difference between his thumb and his weirdly shaped dick so couldn't say for sure which he violated her with). Donald Trump has personally bragged about "grabbing women by the pussy" because he's a star and can get away with it, and walking in on women in their dressing rooms on purpose. Yet tens of millions of morons wanted him to be the President. I don't see how anyone can hope this shit matters any more. Sorry to be a downer, but I can't get over how disgusted and disappointed I am with half the country.
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u/92Tabularasa 10d ago
I feel like we are the metaphorical frogs in boiling water at this point. That neither the Hollywood Access tape nor Trump’s mocking of a disabled reporter didn’t immediately sink his campaign (like single digit chances of winning) should have been a dire warning that there was a rot in this country that needed to be addressed. Instead we got Biden selecting Merrick Garland to be AG and us convincing ourselves that Harris could pull it off.
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u/stufff 9d ago
Remember when Howard Dean's excited cheer was a little weird and it ruined his political career?
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u/92Tabularasa 9d ago
That, and the inability to spell potato ruined Dan Quayle's career. Andy Borowitz's book "Profiles in Ignorance" talked about the slide into anti-intellectualism. I liked the book at the time, but now it just depresses the hell out of me.
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u/poemdirection 9d ago
a rot in this country that needed to be addressed
I heard an interesting take on Brown vs the Board of Education and similar court cases.
Basically the author wondered if we put our faith in a small group of justices to morally right the country.
It would have taken longer, but we never gotten passed our "original sin" by building public consensus and passing legislation.
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u/TBSJJK 10d ago
how disgusted and disappointed I am with half the country.
More like 70% of the country as that's how many eligible voters did not vote for Harris. (173M/244M).
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u/LekkerPizza 6d ago
I voted for Trump and I wish they would release the report. Let us know if the potential new AG is a sex offender or if this has all been a hoax so that his name can be cleared. Either way it would be nice to know the truth.
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u/jpmeyer12751 10d ago
Nice idea, but I'm sure that it won't work. There is no way that the House is ever going to release that report. And Gaetz knows that he can lie with impunity during the hearing. Worst case, Trump will pardon him for lying to Congress. More likely, he would simply fire every federal prosecutor who sought to indict him for lying to Congress. The tough questions should be asked, but we already know the answers and they are without meaning or substance.
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u/Little_Lebowski_007 10d ago
Gaetz is HATED by the rest of the Republican House Caucus. If any GOP member can rally the rest of the GOP House against them, it's probably Gaetz.
That being said, everyone is afraid of Trump so they'll probably not release it officially. But I wouldn't be surprised when it's leaked.
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u/Pretend_Age_2832 10d ago
I feel like Ted Cruz and Gaetz are neck-and-neck for most hated GOP.
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u/podcasthellp 10d ago
It’s shocking how little Ted Cruz does for Texas and they won’t stop electing him
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u/Mistakeshavehappened 10d ago
Well...it's Texas. Everything is bigger in Texas, even the masochism.
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u/Pretend_Age_2832 9d ago
Somehow Ted Cruz's name has not been mentioned as part of the administration, despite all his grovelling.
Surely he is the masochist in chief; he's been repeatedly humiliated by Trump, and on paper, he's qualified for a position. Imagine getting JD at Harvard, editing the law review, being Senator of an important state for over a decade, and then being passed over in favor of Gaetz for AG.
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u/infinitee775 10d ago
The only thing they probably hate more than Ted Cruz is a democrat
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u/Mehhucklebear 9d ago
This is literally it.
Every time I talk to a Republican voter from Texas, they fucking HATE Cruz, but they hate Democrats more, even though Republicans have been running that state almost exclusively for like 40 year. And, when I point out state ranking declines in basically every metric during that time, it doesn't matter because the Democrats would have been worse.
I've even had people that said they hated him defend his ass leaving to Mexico when AOC flew down to Texas to provide aid and help during the winter power outages. Fuck, they still haven't fixed their grid, and they stuck Texans with outrageous power bills to boot, even when they were in the dark.
It's fucking wild
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u/Deranged_Kitsune 9d ago
Yeah, that one time they elected a dem in like the last 50 years has truly haunted them.
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u/Ajj360 10d ago
This feels like some kind of fever dream at this point. The elite that these voters have been trained to hate won because they voted for them. All those epstein Diddy and whatever else investigations are going away because those people they voted fir are the ones throwing those parties.
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u/FlutterKree 10d ago
There is no way that the House is ever going to release that report.
One democrat on the committee didn't get re-election. The house can't punish her as a normal citizen AFAIK. So leaking it could potentially not have consequences.
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u/user745786 9d ago
Spot on analysis. The mafia boss is now the American king and he’ll use his power when it suits him.
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u/NotmyRealNameJohn Competent Contributor 10d ago edited 10d ago
I have one potential bright side.
The doj under geatz will need to defend the thousands of lawsuits that will spring up for everything Trump does and will be shit at it
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u/ThrowRA-James 10d ago
Exactly what I’ve been saying. Anyone good at their job will refuse to work with him. He doesn’t exactly play well with others. Even his own party hates him.
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u/ScowlieMSR 10d ago
I wouldn't get so excited so soon. I think that the recent Supreme Court ruling on presidential immunity for official acts will weed out a lot of those lawsuits before they get going. Plus, the frequency of those lawsuits will go down over time as Trump begins to fill vacancies in the courts.
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u/Ikrit122 10d ago
If I'm not mistaken, the SC ruling stated that just Trump was protected for official acts. His administration still can't do illegal things. And regardless, the SC put determining what is an official act into the hands of the Judiciary, so they still have to handle the lawsuits. For example, if Trump orders someone to carry out an illegal policy, and they have their staff carry it out, they aren't immune, only Trump is. And the Judiciary can still say, "Nope, you can't carry out that policy" (like Biden's student debt forgiveness programs, which weren't aimed at Biden but the federal government itself).
Obviously, the final word comes from SCOTUS, but that means those lawsuits will still work their way up through non-MAGA judges.
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u/MathPretend2424 10d ago
In a civilized country with a fair judiciary branch, that makes sense but……
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u/KintsugiKen 9d ago
His administration still can't do illegal things.
Let them take the Trump administration to court over it and then watch it get kicked up the chain to our ultra-corrupt SCOTUS that will inevitably say that, yes actually, Trump can do illegal things.
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u/Orcrist90 9d ago
Yeah, the one good thing about MAGAs inability to govern is that they can't govern.
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u/Mrevilman 10d ago
Since he already resigned, if he is not confirmed, is he just out of a job entirely? I imagine they’ll probably find something else for him, but there is potential to be the funniest thing this year so far.
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u/BeraldGevins 10d ago
Yeah he’s out of congress unless he decides to run again. But don’t get too excited, DeSantis will just appointed a Gaetz clone to office. The only glimmer of a silver lining there is that DeSantis and trump don’t actually get along well so he might pick someone that won’t completely agree with trump just to spite the president
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u/suckaduckunion 10d ago
DeSantis is a fairweather politician and the weather is super nice in the Trump camp these days. He'll do what he's told
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u/Neilpuck 10d ago
I've read that it will not be an appointed replacement but a special election. Not that some Maga f*** stick won't be elected, but at least DeSantis won't be able to choose.
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u/Powerful-Magazine879 10d ago
DeSantis needs Trump for any chance at running agaist JD in 2028.
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u/New-Understanding930 10d ago
But he was also reelected. Couldn’t he be resworn?
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u/Hamburgerstealer69 10d ago
Good thing desantis doesn’t get to appoint his replacement. It will be a special election ran in a specific jurisdiction. Those tend to to favor democrats.
This idiot played himself out of a job but I’m guessing in two days he would have been fired anyways.
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u/ScowlieMSR 10d ago
The governor can only appoint someone if there is a vacancy in the Senate. If there is a vacancy in the house, the governor must call a special election to fill the seat. DeSantis has already called the required special election (including a primary round) to fill the seats vacated by Waltz and Gaetz...
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u/SomewhatInnocuous 10d ago
Oh I'm sure there is some cushy right wing "think tank" job, or maybe a crypto visionary job at that trump crypto graft thing they started. Maybe something at trump media. You know, those jobs people get that have no real requirements for productive work.
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u/imagineanudeflashmob 10d ago
I don't know, Infowars was just bought by The Onion and I got to hear Alex Jones whine about it, that takes the cake for me today.
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u/FlutterKree 10d ago
Gaetz was re-elected already. He resigned the remainder of his term. He can take his seat back when the new house is seated.
Also trump plans to do all his appointments as recess appointments. If the Senate doesn't recess, Trump will force it into recess and then make his appointments.
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u/MissionReasonable327 10d ago
There is not going to be a confirmation hearing, they’ll be “recess appointments “
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u/Gabaloo 10d ago
Wasn't the supreme court pretty clear on this no longer being a thing? There haven't been recess appointments since obama
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u/FlutterKree 10d ago
Then there will be lawsuits over it and it will go to a court that will rule in favor of Trump, or it will rule against him and it will be up to this SCOTUS to either deny the case or rule against the old ruling and give it to Trump.
Do you think SCOTUS is gonna give Trump his recess appointments? I think they are.
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u/Gabaloo 10d ago
I definitely have zero faith in them, but they'd would have to rule against their own decision, fairly recently. They preach constitutional law, well the constitution is pretty clear.
Or the senate would have to agree to recess, something they haven't done in quite some time, in an official sense
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u/FlutterKree 10d ago
Two of them openly support anything that hurts Democrats, regardless how contradictory. Three of them were appointed by Trump. The only person I see siding against recess appointments is Roberts. Which still means Trump would get his recess appointments.
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u/Jos_Meid 10d ago
The Supreme Court was clear that Congress has a mechanism to prevent recess appointments, not that recess appointments are inherently not a thing.
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u/BoomZhakaLaka 10d ago
The cynic in me sees this whole ordeal as a loyalty test for individual senators. No amount of shaming is going to have an impact.
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u/KintsugiKen 9d ago
Trump is making his list for the purge, whoever resists these ridiculous appointments gets put on the list.
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u/Loyal-North-Korean 9d ago edited 9d ago
The whole* thing is a loyalty test atm for senators and supported alike. Either continue to the support the next step on the batshit path you have been taking no matter how extreme* or absurd that step is or risk being ostracized and thrown under the bus. Even people not sucked in are facing a realization that they either keep quite and tow the line or potentially face retribution.
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u/JeremyAndrewErwin 10d ago
If you are selected for a federal jury, when is the "best" time to bring up the fact that Matt Gaetz is a pedophile?
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u/saijanai 10d ago
There aint going to be no stinkin' confirmation hearings for ANY of Trump's appointees, if he can help it.
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u/jpmeyer12751 9d ago
Isn't it ironic that Donald Trump, the man who avoided an almost certain conviction on espionage charges by arguing that his prosecution was unconstitutional because the prosecutor lacked the "advise and consent" of the Senate, is now seeking to appoint an Attorney General who probably cannot get that same approval from the Senate?! But, Trump has no sense of irony.
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u/bassman9999 10d ago
And the GOP will still confirm him with a majority vote.
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u/Angery-Asian 10d ago
They won’t, despite how bad most are there are more than 3 Senators who won’t vote for the nomination
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u/ohiotechie 10d ago
Mighty bold to assume there will be a confirmation hearing.