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Kaine for Senate '18
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« on: June 29, 2008, 06:46:38 PM »
FDR's move was idiotic, but not unconstitutional.  The reverse happened during Reconstruction, to stop Johnson from making an appointment.

Now, as to the question: No.  In order to pull this off, the President would need to out of this world popular; Eisenhower could have done it, and Washington could have done it.  No other President would have the universal popularity to pull of something like this.
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