On Monday, January 30, 2017 at 10:50:49 PM UTC-6, Con Reeder, unhyphenated American wrote:
> On 2017-01-31, The Cheesehusker, Trade Warrior <
Iamtj...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Monday, January 30, 2017 at 6:51:48 PM UTC-6, Con Reeder, unhyphenated American wrote:
> >> On 2017-01-31, The Cheesehusker, Trade Warrior <
Iamtj...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > Oh this is gonna be fun.
> >> >
> >> > Does he fire her or allow the stay to hold?
> >>
> >> If he allows the stay to hold, he might as well resign.
> >> Prediction -- "You're fired!"
> >>
> >> > And if he fires her, is there anyone left at DOJ to sign warrants, etc?
> >> >
> >> > HUGE rookie mistake to not wait for Sessions to be confirmed - if he
> >> > fires Yates, Sen Dems have a hill to die on and Sessions confirmation
> >> > gets tied up for evvvvvvvver
> >>
> >> I don't know why. She's openly making a grandstand play to defy him, which
> >> is a firing offense. And the Dems can make noise about Sessions, but they
> >> can't stop his confirmation.
> >>
> >
> > May be wrong on this, but she's the only person in the DOJ right now
> > who can sign surveillance warrants and the like - if he fires her, he
> > can't gets warrants he might need until Sessions gets confirmed - and
> > I gotta think the Dems will do whatever they can to hold up Sessions -
> > especially if Trump announces the SC pick tomorrow night
>
> Do you have some basis for this? Why would not the next Senate-
> confirmed deputy just be appointed to the job?
B/c there aren't any - Yates was the only one still on staff. See above answer to Dot re permissible duties - I honestly don't know - but you'd think there'd be a limit on what an appointed AG can do v confirmed AG
Honestly tho, Trump's not helping much and giving the Dems Big Reasons to oppose loudly - and by vote