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...]
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