re: #92 EPR-radar

That’s exactly right. They do have that authority, and have always had it. Before this crop of Republicans, pretty much nobody was stupid enough to actually go there.

The constitution actually doesn’t say very much, and there is certainly nothing in there that forbids the Senate from having fart noise express its lack of consent to a presidential nominee.

Yeah…no. I’d say it’s pretty much unarguable that the Founders never intended for the Senate to be able to deny a President’s authority to make nominations.