Sessions Vote To Confirm Go To The Floor When Will

The senate voted to confirm jeff sessions as attorney general.

Sessions vote to confirm go to the floor when will.

No republicans went against sessions in the 52 47 vote. And wait for the lame. Article ii section 2 clause 2 of the united states constitution known as the appointments clause empowers the president to nominate and with the confirmation advice and consent of the united states senate to appoint public officials including justices of the supreme court this clause is one example of the system of checks and balances inherent in the constitution. Other than two dissenting gop senators no one thus far in the 53 member conference is arguing to wait for a lame duck session let alone the next congress to hold a confirmation vote.

Will receive a vote on the floor of the united states senate. The senate will vote on this nomination this year mcconnell r ky said monday on the senate floor. The one democrat who voted in support of sessions was sen. In 2016 the republican majority refused to allow a confirmation vote on merrick garland president obama s pick to replace justice antonin scalia who died in february of that year.

Convene for a pro forma session. He didn t say whether the vote would come before the election or in a lame duck session of. The senate confirmed jeff sessions as the next attorney general wednesday evening by a vote of 52 47 mostly along party lines. Lisa murkowski said she wouldn t vote to confirm a supreme court justice until after the election.

Of sexism for silencing a woman on the floor and warren.