AdvertisementThe former and soon-to-be-president wants Gaetz to be attorney general and Kennedy as secretary of health and human services. “He wants what he wants, and he’s not going to allow the Constitution to stand in the way,” Raskin told HuffPost. Thune has said he wouldn’t discard the filibuster, for example, and offered only a half-hearted endorsement of allowing recess appointments. Advertisement“I don’t think, in the final analysis, that members of Congress are going to surrender our essential constitutional functions,” Raskin said. “The same Republicans... that might have a problem voting for somebody under regular order probably also have a problem voting to put the Senate into recess,” Thune said.

Source: Huffington Post November 17, 2024 08:43 UTC