Hopefully their time of service will be mercifully cut short by Mueller & Co when the whole clown car crashes later this year.
At any other time of our history, well, except for the period just before the Civil War, this would have been normal.
“Before Dems Take Congress”?
This is either AP not understanding the difference between “Congress”, “The Senate”, and “The House of Representatives”, or it’s AP trying to spin a blah story into “Republicans move to push through Trump appointees before Dems take over!”
Bad headline…
And since the Senate confirms nominees and the Dems are taking charge of the House, it seems like an unnecessary connection to make in a headline.
More proof “journalists” need to take remedial civics classes.
With the turn over rate of this administration I don’t think this is going to matter in the long run. By the way the Democrats are taking over the house, not the senate. The senate confirms nominees.
I hate reading AP articles here for the most part, and this is just one reason among many as to why. Ron Fournier ruined the objective approach to reporting the news and it hasn’t recovered even after he left. One out of, let’s say, 20 articles seems to have no obvious bias, but the rest really do suck in some way or another.
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More proof “journalists” need to take remedial civics classes.
[/quote]The same could be said of some “presidents.”
Do nominations, like bills, expire at the end of a session, or only at the end of a president’s term?
And when it finally turns out Individual-1 is illegitimate, can we say the nominations were themselves illegitimate and the confirmations were fruit of the poisonous tree?
"Sorry Judge Smith, my editors stand behind your description as an ‘indicted former president-era judge…’ "
Heh, heh, heh.
I think the issue is that if these people had not been confirmed by the last Senate, they would have to be renominated to be confirmed by the incoming Senate. But I agree, the headline and the content of the article is misleading and lacks an understanding of general civics.