Sources familiar with the President’s thinking tell CNN that he is being urged by some associates that a recess appointment is an option worth pursuing in order to avoid a messy confirmation process in the short term.
Although there are multiple political and procedural road blocks, the theory, if he could find a way to pull it off, would be to install a new attorney general while the Senate is in recess, which would allow that person to stay in place through 2018.
A new attorney general might be willing to more aggressively oversee Mueller’s probe into the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia or fire the special counsel outright, as Trump has suggested he wants.
But the catch is that for a recess appointment plan to work, the Senate would actually have to formally adjourn into recess, and Senate Democrats are already working on strategies to prevent that from happening.
So spooked are Democrats that the audacious Trump might actually try to pull off a switch, they are now speaking out publicly against it and double-checking long-established procedures to make sure there is not a loophole he can exploit.

Re: The military ban of transgenders

Politico Reader:
This was explicitly timed to ingratiate the so-called president with the bigot-brigade that is otherwise pissed at him for dumping on their bigot-in-chief, Sessions. […]

Yep.

Apparently Trump has just REVERSED Pres. Obama’s directive that allowed transgenders to serve in the military.

He is re-instating the ban, citing the “burden” of “tremendous costs” and “disruption” to the military as his reasons for doing so.

H/T: MSNBC

Welp. We’ll soon know because Donald is in a manic-panic to shut down Mueller’s investigation, beginning with ousting Sessions.

But I feel pretty confident that whatever steps Donald takes to try to get rid of Mueller It. WILL Backfire.