“I’m going to spend the next four years warning people that Trump’s party will resist handing over power if it loses the next presidential election and practically everyone will call me hysterical for saying so, as if it didn’t already happen once before.”

“And SCOTUS has all but naw-dawg-ed this idea already,” she continued. “[In] 2014 they unanimously shot down [Barack] Obama when he tried to recess-appoint over a three-day intra-session recess. So your plan is to ignore the Supreme Court AND hand your opponents an enormous weapon in a few years all while gutting the constitutional function of the Senate? Cool, cool.”

“That’s especially so if Trump and House Republicans end up colluding in recess-appointment chicanery to let him install the Cabinet he likes without the Senate’s advice and consent. To my knowledge, no president has ever sought to dispense entirely with the upper chamber’s confirmation power, which is what Trump’s scheme would amount to. It would be a meaningful step toward dictatorship if he succeeds, without hyperbole.”