William Barr: "It is reasonable to wonder whether a future President will actually be able to form a functioning administration if his or her party does not hold the Senate."

In the PowerLine Blog, Scott Johnson blogs about a speech Attorney General Barr recently gave on the Constitution’s approach to executive power. I learned about Barr's speech after reading a quote from the speech by Misanthropic Humanitarian in the Ace of Spades blog and then clicking on the link to PowerLine. Here is the quote:

As of September of this year, the Senate had been forced to invoke cloture on 236 Trump nominees — each of those representing its own massive consumption of legislative time meant only to delay an inevitable confirmation. How many times was cloture invoked on nominees during President Obama’s first term? 17 times. The Second President Bush’s first term? Four times. It is reasonable to wonder whether a future President will actually be able to form a functioning administration if his or her party does not hold the Senate.