Sen. Tommy Tuberville is waging an unprecedented campaign to try to change the Pentagon's abortion policy, employing maneuvers to hold up hundreds of military nominations and promotions.
Not only that. He’s likely trying to pull what McConnell and the GOP did with the federal courts. He is laboring under the hope that Trump will win in 2024, so if he lets the number of vacancies grow until then, Trump could pack the armed forces with loyalists.
It won’t work quite like the courts, though. There are only a finite amount of senior military personnel who can even be nominated. The rules on this are pretty specific and rigid. I think they’d be sorely disappointed in the outcome of this is truly their objective. Additionally, they might be able to pack some positions, but the military isn’t just a thoughtless hivemind. It’s a huge apparatus with hundreds of thousands of personnel from all kinds of backgrounds, you can’t just turn and aim it back at the US and think it’s going to work out fine.
Not only that. He’s likely trying to pull what McConnell and the GOP did with the federal courts. He is laboring under the hope that Trump will win in 2024, so if he lets the number of vacancies grow until then, Trump could pack the armed forces with loyalists.
It won’t work quite like the courts, though. There are only a finite amount of senior military personnel who can even be nominated. The rules on this are pretty specific and rigid. I think they’d be sorely disappointed in the outcome of this is truly their objective. Additionally, they might be able to pack some positions, but the military isn’t just a thoughtless hivemind. It’s a huge apparatus with hundreds of thousands of personnel from all kinds of backgrounds, you can’t just turn and aim it back at the US and think it’s going to work out fine.