EPISODE · Dec 3, 2024 · 54 MIN
Radio Show Hour 2 – 12/03/2024
from Liberty Roundtable Podcast · host Sam Bushman
* Guest: Mark Tapscott, Award-winning veteran investigative journalist, Senior Congressional Correspondent, Who covers Congress for The Epoch Times - TheEpochTimes.com* The heated upcoming confirmation battles of President-elect Trump's Cabinet picks.* Mr. Tapscott is also the founding editor of HillFaith, the website of a Christian apologetics ministry devoted to presenting the Gospel of Jesus Christ to congressional aides in the nation’s capital - HillFaith.orgSharing The Good News Of Jesus Christ With Congressional Aides!* THE FAITH OF THE FOUNDERS: George Washington Tells His Men To Seek Heaven’s Blessing To Be Free.* Scalia, a Trump Hero, Would Have Hated His Recess Appointments Plan - Adam Liptak, NYT.Justice Antonin Scalia, a conservative giant, said attempts to circumvent the Senate's responsibility to vet nominees were 'ignoble' and 'just made up.* Mr. Trump strayed from Justice Scalia's understanding of the Constitution when he proposed using recess appointments to sidestep the Senate's constitutional role of vetting and approving his nominees.* 'These new rules have no basis whatever in the Constitution,' he said. 'They are just made up.* 'The court's decision transforms the recess-appointment power from a tool carefully designed to fill a narrow and specific need,' Justice Scalia said in his written opinion, 'into a weapon to be wielded by future presidents against future Senates.Justice Scalia even anticipated circumstances in which a president's party has a Senate majority, as Republicans will for Mr. Trump. 'Its members,' the justice said from the bench, 'often are not motivated to resist encroachment by a president who is the leader of their own party.
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