Thune says Senate GOP ‘prepared’ to fill potential Supreme Court vacancy - Live Updates - POLITICO

The president remains very interested in the possibility of placing Sen. Ted Cruz on the court, according to two other people granted anonymity to describe Trump’s thinking. The White House did not respond to a request for comment on the president’s current thinking...

https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/04/14/congress/thune-ready-to-fill-possible-scotus-vacancy-00871750

Did #Trump and #DOGE cuts play a role in the #Texas #floods? You already know the answer .

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/cuof-6Et7-E

 

Scott Lemieux: Republicans will fill a Supreme Court vacancy this year if they get one. But that could backfire.

Making the court grounds for an endless cycle of retaliation and counter-retaliation between the parties is a constitutional crisis that no one needs.....
https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/republicans-will-fill-supreme-court-vacancy-year-if-they-get-ncna1234693

Graham on potential Supreme Court vacancy: 'This would be a different circumstance' than Merrick Garland | TheHill

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said the Senate would work to confirm a Supreme Court nominee this year if a vacancy arises, saying the circumstances are different from 2016, when Republicans blocked then-President Obama’s nomination of Merrick Garland.....
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/498133-graham-on-potential-supreme-court-vacancy-this-would-be-a-different

Trump threatens to adjourn both chambers of Congress | TheHill

President Trump on Wednesday threatened to use his executive power to force both chambers of Congress to adjourn if the Senate did not confirm his nominees for vacancies across the administration. The president, during a coronavirus briefing in the Rose Garden, offered a lengthy diatribe against what he described as congressional obstruction and argued confirming his nominees was more urgent than ever amid the pandemic.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/493044-trump-threatens-to-adjourn-both-chambers-of-congress

Decades of conservative governance has worsened the coronavirus crisis - The Washington Post

From tax cuts to slashing government, conservatives ideas have left the Trump administration ill-equipped to handle the pandemic.....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/04/07/decades-conservative-governance-has-worsened-coronavirus-crisis/

Trump Broke the Agencies That Were Supposed To Stop the Covid-19 Epidemic - POLITICO

The government agencies designed to protect us are riddled with vacancies and temporary officials. No wonder we’re facing a catastrophe.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/04/07/trump-dismantled-the-very-jobs-meant-to-stop-the-covid-19-epidemic-173347

How Trump’s chaotic incompetence — and the ‘deconstruction’ of the ‘deep state’ — got us here – Raw Story

In February of 2017, in the very early days of the Trump administration, Steve Bannon, then the White House strategic adviser, appeared at the annual gathering of the Conservative Political Action Committee and described the new administration’s three “lines of thought.” The first had to do with sovereignty or “America First.” The second was what he called “economic nationalism” ( Trump’s trade war). And the third he called “the deconstruction of the administrative state.” ....
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/03/how-trumps-chaotic-incompetence-and-the-deconstruction-of-the-deep-state-got-us-here/

Pentagon vacancy rate in high-level positions hits record high as Trump tries to take total control

Remember how impeached Donald Trump went on a rampage of firing national security people a few weeks ago? It's not just those high-level firings lawmakers are worried about. It's also the gutting of civilian positions at the Pentagon, which is putting our already shaky national security under an unstable would-be autocrat in even more jeopardy. ....
https://www.dailykos.com/story/2020/3/6/1925157/-Pentagon-vacancy-rate-in-high-level-positions-hits-record-high-as-Trump-tries-to-take-total-control

Prepare to be shocked! Trump’s one weird trick to avoid a campaign investigation. – Center for Public Integrity

This is a tale of how President Donald Trump is avoiding judgment by the government agency that’s supposed to “protect the integrity of the federal campaign finance process.”....

https://publicintegrity.org/politics/trump-fec-campaign-election-quorum-pascrell/

Trump administration vacancies pose risk to national security during Iran escalation, experts say - The Washington Post

Speaking from the White House this week amid stoked tensions with Iran, President Trump was flanked by nearly a dozen men involved in our nation’s defense — a move meant to convey U.S. military might. “Our great American forces are prepared for anything,” Trump said. But three years into President Trump’s first term in the White House, and a week after a targeted airstrike that killed Iranian Maj. Gen. Qasem Soleimani in Baghdad, hundreds of positions in the administration remain empty or filled with temporary personnel....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2020/01/11/these-federal-jobs-are-crucial-us-policy-iran-remain-unfilled-by-trumps-team/

Trump pushes Georgia governor he helped elect to appoint a key anti-impeachment ally to Senate – Raw Story

On Wednesday, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that President Donald Trump is pushing Gov. Brian Kemp (R-GA) to name Georgia Congressman Doug Collins to the seat vacated by the late Sen. Johnny Isakson. ....
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/11/trump-pushes-georgia-governor-he-helped-elect-to-appoint-a-key-anti-impeachment-ally-to-senate/

McConnell: GOP would 'absolutely' fill Supreme Court seat next year - The Hill

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) pledged Tuesday that Republicans would fill a Supreme Court vacancy in 2019 or 2020, arguing the dynamic is different now than when the party held open a seat in 2016.....
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/459715-mcconnell-gop-would-absolutely-fill-supreme-court-seat-next-year

McConnell says he would help Trump fill a Supreme Court vacancy in 2020 — a reversal from 2016 - The Washington Post

When President Barack Obama nominated Judge Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court in 2016, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) refused to consider him, blocking the nominee until after the year's presidential election. He said then that "the American people should have a voice in the selection of their next Supreme Court Justice." The tactic cost Garland his spot on the court...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/05/29/mcconnell-says-he-would-fill-supreme-court-vacancy/