Scalia: SCOTUS Still Defies the Constitution in Appointments Case

Scalia: SCOTUS Still Defies the Constitution in Appointments Case

by Joel B. Pollak Via Breitbart Justice Antonin Scalia concurred with the majority on the Supreme Court in the unanimous decision to strike down President Barack Obama's "recess" appointments to the National Labor Relations Board in NLRB v. Noel Canning. However, he wrote that the majority's interpretation, which still allows the president to make recess appointments when the Senate is not yet between sessions, departs from the original text of the Constitution. Last January, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit voided Obama's appointments because they had been made when the … [Read more...]