WASHINGTON, Aug 14 (Reuters) - The U.S. Navy on Monday became the third branch of the military to no longer have a Senate-confirmed leader for the first time in history, as a Republican senator continues to block military nominations.
Retiring Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Mike Gilday gave up command on Monday. The Navy, Army and Marine Corps are now all without a confirmed leader.
In one way, this can actually be seen as a good thing for Biden. It is the duty of the Senate to advise and consent. The Senate has effectively abdicated that duty. The job of doing appointments for the military now rests solely in the hands of the executive branch, President Biden.
Obama should have done that with the Supreme Court.
There is this legal theory that refusal to take a vote on something you’re constitutional obligated to do is equivalent to accepting by unanimous consent. Obama wouldn’t test it… unfortunately.
This should be grounds to dismiss the senate and call new elections
I’ll assume you aren’t an American (or that you’re joking), but the US has no procedures to “dismiss” a legislative body. The US is a presidential republic with regularly scheduled elections at fixed dates, and there is no such thing as a “Snap Election”.
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Well, elections can cost a lot of money if it happens too frequently.
But at least we don’t have to deal with election campaign ads all the time, since election dates are unpredictable.
Some places with things like snap elections also have limits on campaign lengths and how much money can be used in an election.
us Elections cost lots of money anyways because of superPACs and how long one cycle is (campaigning starts YEARS early).
I am American. I just think we’ve got a fucked up political system and can learn a lot from around the globe. I also support Ranked-choice voting and doing away with the two party system in favor of multiple parties (since there’s a lot of gray areas and less black or white). Once formed the parties can align forming coalitions to determine leadership of the upper and lower houses. While I’m at it, let’s add term limits and age limits to ALL 3 government branches (that’s right SCOTUS, I’m looking at you)
Finally, I’d also love to see Question Time added to the US structure.
I sure love it when the President can dissolve legislative branches until he gets the party that he wants.😐
You have a point in that, if that worked, a bad president could just throw insane nominations out and when none of them got confirmed go “oh look, guess you don’t like my nominations, this is my power now.”