Admiral Lisa Franchetti was set to be the first woman to run the U.S. Navy, but her confirmation has fallen to the Alabama senator's anti-abortion crusade.
. Just over a week ago, the head of the Army stepped down. Before that, the Marine Corps commandant retired, leaving the branch officially leaderless for the first time since before the Civil War.
These high-level military leaders as well as hundreds of other leadership positions are in jeopardy because Tuberville is objecting to the use of unanimous consent to confirm military promotions en masse. This maneuver is used to for uncontroversial moves,because the Senate’s byzantine processes take too long to do up-and-down votes of 300-plus people.
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