• Aatube@kbin.melroy.org
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    Only if the appointees are bad (which, since it’s Trump and “stuff up the deep state” project 2025, there’s probably a lot of bad appointees). If we obstruct appointees that are good, we’ll just keep seeing the pendulum swinging when a new party comes into power.

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      None of Trump’s appointees are good. If they were, they would refuse to serve under him.

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            I do not think that is enough reasoning for claiming they’re incompetent for blocking their nominations. The Supreme Court has 2 or 3 problem justices, yes, but just look at the plethora of court cases against Trump with injunctions right now. Quite a bit of them were speedily decided under Trump appointees.

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      I don’t believe you’re making that argument in good faith. Every one of his nominees have been ridiculous caricatures of stereotypical MAGA car salesman

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        There’s more appointees than Trump’s cabinet, which I agree is bad. There’s for example district court judges.

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        IIRC he had like two or so with good credentials. The one replacing Lina Khan I think was surprisingly good.