'Not entitled': Conservative lawyer gives civics lesson in effort to tear apart Trump plan
By Donna December 2, 2024 12:08 pm Category: Government (0.0 from 0 votes)
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Like all wanna-be dictators, Trump is trying very hard to obliterate all checks and balances as he enters his 2nd term.
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A conservative lawyer dismissed Donald Trump's insistence on installing political appointees who haven't been properly vetted.
The president-elect has threatened to sidestep the Senate confirmation process by installing nominees during congressional recesses, and some of his advisers have urged him to skip FBI background checks in favor of private security firms. But conservative attorney Gregg Nunziata said that would be unwise and would violate the founders' intentions.
"I believe the president is entitled to have appointees who share his worldview, and he won the election, but what he's not entitled to have is appointees who don't have the character and the judgment to wield the responsibilities of the office to which they have been appointed," said Nunziata, executive director for the Society for the Rule of Law.
"This is the whole purpose of the Senate confirmation process. The founders set it up to make sure that a president cannot install unqualified loyalists into positions at his pleasure, cannot put the trust and faith of the American people and the powers of this government in the hands of people who cannot be counted on to wield that power responsibly, so that's the point of this whole process and the FBI review."
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