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https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/11/26/2288939/-Frank-Figliuzzi-and-Michael-Popok-make-the-case-for-Biden-and-the-Senate-to-Sidestep-Trump-s-GameFrank Figliuzzi and Michael Popok make the case for Biden and the Senate to Sidestep Trump's Game
Tuesday, November 26, 2024 at 10:24:14p EST
by jamess
Somethings are WORTH fighting for, Damn it.
Seems like an obvious solution. But it also seems like Dems have all but given up resigned to our fates of enduring MAGA disruptions and/or corruption.
Trump has steadfastly refused to initiate FBI Background Checks on his Nominees.
This former assistant director for counterintelligence at the FBI, explains HOW and WHY we dont have to put up with Trump stalling tactics. Especially when our National Security is quite likely at stake
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by Frank Figliuzzi, MSNBC Columnist Nov. 19, 2024
The Presidential Transition Act of 1963 directs the FBI to conduct such background checks expeditiously for individuals that the President-elect has identified for high level national security positions. But what if he never formally identifies and submits his picks to the Department of Justice and the FBI? In his last administration, Trump overrode security adjudicators who denied clearances for his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and many others, after FBI background checks resulted in national security concerns. This time, he appears poised to dispense with the FBI checks and potentially with the Senate confirmation process by making recess appointments.
That leaves us with two pertinent memorandums of understanding (MOU) which should enable President Joe Biden and/or the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee to quickly do something to preserve national security and the Constitutions advice, and consent powers conferred on our elected lawmakers.
First, Biden should rely upon the existing MOU between the Department of Justice and his office, as well as the Presidential Transition Act, to investigate the people Trump says he wants to put in office. The MOU sets out procedures for requesting background investigations of nominees at the request of the president. It doesnt say the president-elect, it says president. Thats you, Joe. As for the transition act, it reads as applying to people the President-elect has identified for high-level positions. Well, the president-elect has already publicly identified those people. And Biden should respond.
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Michael Popok at Legal AF goes on a righteous rant, advocating for exactly the same thing.
Why should the CURRENT President and CURRENT Senate Judiciary Committee, give a silent endorsement to all the shady and problematic people Trump has nominated?
Whats it gonna be: Oh well Or Hell No!
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If his picks were above-board, those Security Checks would have already been submitted by Trump. They have not been.
Remember how Trump 1.0 personally cleared Jared Kushner himself, after the FBI refused to do so? And how that corrupt unchecked situation ultimately turned out?
Have we not learned anything from the first term of Trump?
It is up to our last vestiges of Democracy (for at least a few years), to do what they can to protect American Institutions from wholesale dismantling, or worse while they still have the power and authority to step up and ACT!
Thank you, concerned reader for your time and attention to this important matter.
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allegorical oracle
(3,940 posts)an eagle. Hope Biden will make this move.
He has a tendency to want to seem so fair to everyone -- one of his good traits -- but he owes it to the country and his legacy to see that the office of the POTUS upholds a high standard.
Rebl2
(15,472 posts)If he doesnt, I think it makes Biden look like he just doesnt care anymore.
oldmanlynn
(564 posts)Those traits get you nothing in todays political climate. You must attack these people and not try to be nice and honorable.
dchill
(41,144 posts)... to deliberately scuttle our national security, I say hell yes!
Kid Berwyn
(19,028 posts)I am way over, Oh, well.
So much so, Id encourage President Biden to use the SCrOTUS-granted powers to arrest Trump and every MAGA traitor around and put them in Gitmo.
Hotler
(12,627 posts)Is less of a threat than 'Foreign Enemy'? Why dose one get seal team six and the other is allowed to roam free and threaten anyone?
FakeNoose
(36,496 posts)It's extremely important that Chump's cheesy cabinet picks are subject to the same FBI background checks that EVERY Democratic admin official has ever been subject to.
I'm sick of the Repukes pretending that the laws don't apply to them. It's total bullshit.
Dark n Stormy Knight
(10,126 posts)Trump can do whatever the fuck he wants. And they also seem to be getting away with everything.
Martin68
(24,903 posts)Hekate
(96,001 posts)Bettie
(17,657 posts)but, I expect "Oh Well".
No one with any influence to speak of will fight any of this
Evolve Dammit
(19,788 posts)Bluethroughu
(6,726 posts)These people are flaunting how they will break the law to hurt US citizens.
Of course we should stop the hemorrhaging of our Democracy and Constitution before we do not have one.
orleans
(35,564 posts)i wish he would
Meowmee
(6,881 posts)However it does not appear that much is going to be done to stop what is happening here.
BoRaGard
(3,873 posts)
returnee
(383 posts)if you dont, immediately, I will.