Now let me explain to you who may not know that recess appointments are actually in the constitution. What is a recess appointment? It’s a presidential appointment made while the house and the senate were in recess for ten or more straight days and allows a president to appoint someone who would normally require confirmation from the Senate without such confirmation. Such an appointee serves until the next Congress unless he is confirmed by the Senate in the interim.

Why was this in the constitution, because as I think I’ve talked about before, the Congress was never envisioned as a full time job. The original Congress, btw that’s the house and the Senate together, met a couple times a year and then went back to their farms or plantations or businesses. It was never envisioned that we would have a permanent political class. And under that scenario, it would happen quite often that the Congress would not be in session when a necessary vacancy came up and they didn’t want to handicap the president.

And just for your information, recess appointments were common up until I think one of the Bushes when suddenly the Congress decided to never recess although they did but did some nonsense to pretend that they weren’t. And the Supremes agreed with them blocking Obama appointments and now they can prevent recess appointments without agreement from both the Senate and the House. Now we have both and if they recognize the mandate of the election, they will have a recess quickly after January 20 and let Trump appoint his cabinet and then proceed to go through the normal confirmation process to determine if they can stay. It’s important because it will allow Trump and his people to hit the ground running. If they didn’t, it could take months or years to get his people in place.

Hell with a recess, Gaetz can get in and clean house at DOJ.