Quote from: Flying Hellfish on November 09, 2018, 01:38:24 PM

Quote from: theymos_away on November 07, 2018, 08:31:19 PM

Trump is bad at picking people,

There is a lot of blow back so far for his pick as interim AG. A number of prominent constitutional lawyers (Republican and Dem) are making the argument that Whitaker's appointment is unconstitutional....

... interim job should have gone down the line of succession until a Trump nominee can be confirmed.

You know, that's a very, very minor point in any overall scheme of things. It's an "interim" director job. There could be any of a number of valid and practical reasons to appoint the person instead of using a line of succession.

But since you want to harp on it, let's look at it. Just another case of liberals reversing themselves when it fits whatever the current goal is. And you're playing right into that.

Go back to 2017.

A USA Today article said this ...

The order appears to be the first that Trump has not signed in a public ceremony. It's dated Thursday the same day Attorney General Jeff Sessions was sworn in but was not posted to the White House website until Friday morning. The White House did not explain the discrepancy.

The executive order spells out who will act as the nation's highest law enforcement officer if the attorney general dies, resigns or becomes incapacitated. Such orders have been routine since the 2001 terrorist attacks, but Trump's is notable becomes it comes two weeks after he fired acting Attorney General Sally Yates for refusing to defend his executive order banning travelers from seven predominately Muslim countries.

That time, Trump went outside the official order of succession as he has the right to do to elevate Dana Boente, the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, to acting attorney general.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/02/10/trump-executive-order-obama-justice-department-succession/97752898/