Tell Your Senators: Say No to Trump’s Recess Appointments!
President-elect Donald Trump wants to exploit a Constitutional loophole and circumvent accountability by the legislative branch by using “recess appointments” to ensure that he can install exactly who he wants in his Cabinet and other key positions, no matter how unqualified or extreme his picks might be.
Under Article 2, Section 2 of the U.S. Constitution, the U.S. Senate is entrusted with the power of “advice and consent” for the President’s nominees for leadership positions in the executive and judicial branches of the government.
If the Senate were to allow Trump to carry out his plans to use recess appointments, it would amount to a serious abdication of Senate leadership with dire consequences. We who believe that competence, character, and integrity still matter have significant agency to pressure our senators to show courage in exercising their constitutional duty to approve nominations.
Contact your Senators today and urge them to defend the checks and balances of our democracy by pushing back on Trump’s stated desire to go around the Senate by using recess appointments.