Christina M. Kinane

Excited that my article "Control Without Confirmation: The Politics of Vacancies in Presidential Appointments" is now available on @apsrjournal First View! Great way to celebrate President's Day! Check it out at: cambridge.org/core/journals/…

When Congress has impeached officers and removed them, its only been judges. No Cabinet or other PAS appointees. Now Hegseth on the line again for the 3rd time this Congress, but now from a GOP MoC... this could get interesting.

Since 1900, the House has impeached just 1 Cabinet Secretary, DHS Sec Alejandro Mayorkas, by a 214–213 vote on 2/13/2024. But the Senate ended the case on points of order without reaching a verdict.

Before him, the last was Sec of War William Belknap in 1876 who resigned the same day the House voted, and then Senate acquitted him.

a not small number of women in their 40s I know are the experiencing the new SAHM: husband who's job now has them in another city during the week but they have kid(s), dog(s), a full-time demanding career, and a 120% mental load.

25 years ago, I was a sophomore in high school in the south bay of LA and the only daughter to a single mom, a United Airlines flight attendant.

I was getting ready for school when my mom screamed from her bedroom that I would not be going to school.

"... The public will never be made to believe that an appointment of a relative is made on the ground of merit alone, uninfluence by family view; nor can they ever see with approbation offices, the disposal of which they entrust to their Presidents for public purposes, divided out as family property... It is true that this places the relatives of the President in a worse situation than if he were a stranger, but the public good... requires this sacrifice."

Thomas Jefferson, Republican, (writing to George Jefferson) March 27, 1801.

interesting theory of personnel appointments.