president may not issue a recess appoi appointment. congressman, 9-0 in the supreme court. isn t this another clear case of presidential overreach? when you face a republican majority in the house that is playing this game of shutdown politics, blocking everything the president wants to do this has nothing to do with the house. including confirmation of judges and of agency heads. the house does not confirm i understand. but in the case of the house, for example i m asking you a specific question. the 9-0 decision by the supreme court on making recess appointments when the court said and it was a liberal justice who wrote the unanimous decision when the court said the senate wasn t in session. isn t this presidential overreach. what the president did what presidents have done since the time of horse and buggy, republicans and democrats alike, is use the power to appoint, to go out there and do that. during the recess, when the president did these
president may not issue a recess appoi appointment. congressman, 9-0 in the supreme court. isn t this another clear case of presidential overreach? when you face a republican majority in the house that is playing this game of shutdown politics, blocking everything the president wants to do this has nothing to do with the house. including confirmation of judges and of agency heads. the house does not confirm i understand. but in the case of the house, for example i m asking you a specific question. the 9-0 decision by the supreme court on making recess appointments when the court said and it was a liberal justice who wrote the unanimous decision when the court said the senate wasn t in session. isn t this presidential overreach. what the president did what presidents have done since the time of horse and buggy, republicans and democrats alike, is use the power to appoint, to go out there and do that. during the recess, when the
president may not issue a recess appoi appointment. congressman, 9-0 in the supreme court. isn t this another clear case of presidential overreach? when you face a republican majority in the house that is playing this game of shutdown politics, blocking everything the president wants to do this has nothing to do with the house. including confirmation of judges and of agency heads. the house does not confirm i understand. but in the case of the house, for example i m asking you a specific question. the 9-0 decision by the supreme court on making recess appointments when the court said and it was a liberal justice who wrote the unanimous decision when the court said the senate wasn t in session. isn t this presidential overreach. what the president did what presidents have done since the time of horse and buggy, republicans and democrats alike, is use the power to appoint, to go out there and do that. during the recess, when the president did these
how did he handle going in to war? well, the interesting thing about lincoln is there s two different approaches. when he was a congressman, he actually gave a fiery speech on the house floor, saying that president polk had taken us unconstitutionally into the mexican/american war. but then when the firing on ft. sumter took place, he had to act without congress because it wasn t in session. so, he called out the state militia, he instituted a blockade, and then he gave a major speech that he sent to the congress on july 4th, when they convened, saying he regretted having to take the action without their authority, but he had to do it to save the union. and then they retroactively gave him everything he wanted because his speech was so eloquent and he traced the events of the war. what about fdr? i m curious what his approach was. and was it easier for him because there was this clear evil out there? surely, once japan attacked us and the clarity of what hitler was doing became c