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...]
Jan 13, 2014
Battle over presidential recess appointments heads to Supreme Court
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Via Fox News & The Associated Press- The Supreme Court will hear arguments Monday in a politically charged dispute between President Obama and Senate Republicans over the president's power to temporarily fill high-level positions. The case being argued at the high court is the first in the nation's history to consider the meaning of the provision of the Constitution that allows the president to make temporary appointments to positions that otherwise require Senate confirmation, but only when the Senate is in recess. The court battle is an outgrowth of increasing partisanship and … [Read more...]
May 17, 2013
Unconstitutional Appointments – Big Labor
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Second appeals court strikes down Obama NLRB appointments BY: Bill McMorris Via Washington Free Beacon A second federal appeals court has struck down President Obama’s 2012 recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board as unconstitutional. The Third Circuit Court of Appeals, which covers parts of Delaware, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, ruled 2-1 that President Obama violated the constitution’s separation of powers when he recess-appointed Democrat Craig Becker to the NLRB in March 2010. “We hold that the ‘the Recess of the Senate,’ in the Recess Appointments Clause … [Read more...]
Jan 30, 2013
Mark Levin & The Constitutional Resurgence
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We lost the election in November because the GOP failed to see the tyranny going on in this country and they gave up on the Judeo-Christian values that this nation was founded on. Conservatism is the answer to the question the Republican establishment keeps asking about what is needed to align the party with the will of the people. Yet it's the one answer they are unwilling to accept. They overlook the obvious when seeking why the party lost in 2012. Establishment Republicans, also known as r.i.n.o.s, want to re-brand the Republican Party by surrendering our principles. These moderate … [Read more...]
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