Mike Stern
mls1776.bsky.social
Mike Stern
@mls1776.bsky.social
Former congressional lawyer
We are going to have to move to PurpleSky.
November 28, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Can we watch this somewhere?
November 28, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Ill Allow GIF
ALT: Ill Allow GIF
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November 27, 2025 at 9:33 PM
One can grant this and still think that a heroin addict is not an ideal fit for a cabinet position
November 27, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Probably just trying to make Kim Jong Un jealous
November 22, 2025 at 6:46 AM
And yet you said nothing when something else may or may not have happened.
November 21, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Operation Desert Stormy
November 16, 2025 at 4:35 AM
November 24?
November 15, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Did it work, I ask hopefully.
November 14, 2025 at 7:25 PM
This was my dim recollection.
November 12, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Let’s just change the team name to the Almost Redskins and make everybody happy.
November 9, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Smart move. ICE will never find him now.
October 31, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Ahh, I was wondering
October 29, 2025 at 11:01 PM
What originalist will save me from this troublesome amendment?
October 29, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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October 25, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Well, no longer than January when the next session starts, but in theory until then, yes.
October 25, 2025 at 1:17 PM
I don’t think they can do anything until they come back into session. I don’t think, for example, they can start a new discharge petition. Note: that’s my guess, I am not sure.
October 25, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Last post should have been 3/3. 🤦‍♂️
October 25, 2025 at 1:08 PM
(Which is presumably correct because no business is supposed to be conducted in pro forma sessions). But I guess if enough members showed up they could try to bully the presiding officer into entertaining a motion to reconvene. AFAIK that’s the closest to an available procedure. 4/4
October 25, 2025 at 1:07 PM
to gain control of the floor (as they have tried to do with regard to the swearing in of Grijalva). But the problem there is the speaker designates the member presiding over the pro forma session and that member is going to just ignore any attempts to transact business 2/
October 25, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good question. I believe the adjournment resolution leaves it up to the speaker so ordinarily there would be no way of the House convening to act without his ok. But they still continue to hold pro forma sessions (as a Noel Canning legacy). So theoretically someone can try to use those sessions 1/
October 25, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Based on the President’s inherent authority under Article II, I believe Lindsey now has to change the spelling of her name.
October 22, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Whether that constitutes an extreme conservative position or not, it seems to me to make more sense than severability, particularly since the executive has little incentive to agree to agency reforms once the Court hands full control to the president.
October 22, 2025 at 12:24 AM