An executive resolution authorizing the en bloc consideration in Executive Session of certain nominations on the Executive Calendar.

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S. Res. 412 is an internal Senate procedural rule for voting on nominations en bloc. It rests on explicit Article I, Section 5 and Article II, Section 2 authority, infringes no rights, takes no property, and consolidates no power.

• ✓ Passes · Enumerated powers
  The Senate has explicit authority to act. Article I, Section 5, Clause 2 provides Each House may determine the Rules of its Proceedings. Article II, Section 2, Clause 2 provides the Senate's advice and consent role for Officers and Ambassadors. Authorizing en bloc consideration of Executive Calendar nominations is squarely within those grants.
• ✓ Passes · Bill of Rights
  The resolution only sets Senate procedure for grouping nominations for votes. It does not limit speech, religion, assembly, press, arms, search protections, trial rights, or other rights under Amendments 1-10. No First Amendment, Second Amendment, Fourth Amendment, or other Bill of Rights interest is implicated.
• ✓ Passes · Individual sovereignty
  The resolution restricts no personal conduct, property use, speech, labor, or belief. It governs only internal Senate voting order. No burden on individual sovereignty exists for the government to justify.
• ✓ Passes · Decentralization
  Advice and consent on nominations is an exclusive Senate function under Article II, Section 2, Clause 2 and rulemaking under Article I, Section 5, Clause 2. Individuals, counties, and states cannot confirm federal officers and ambassadors. The resolution does not move power upward to a higher level; it exercises existing Senate power in its own chamber with no Tenth Amendment violation.
• ✓ Passes · Due process and takings
  No liberty or property interest is adjudicated, no criminal process is involved, and no property is taken. Procedural due process under the Fifth Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment and the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment are not triggered by a Senate voting procedure.

Sources: Official text: SRES 412 (Agreed to Senate)