In a setback for President Barack Obama, a federal appeals court ruled Friday that he violated the Constitution in making recess appointments last year, a decision that could severely curtail the president’s ability to bypass the Senate to fill administration vacancies.
The three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit said Obama did not have the power to make three recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board because the Senate was officially in session — and not in recess — at the time. If the decision stands, it could invalidate hundreds of board decisions made over the past year.
The court also ruled that the president could only make recess appointments if the openings arise when the Senate is in an official recess, which it defined as the once-a-year break between sessions of Congress.
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7 comments:
That us right for the Constructional freedoms we share.
Has anything he's done been Constitutional?
Obama is constitutionally challenged!
And who is going to do something about it? NO ONE!!
Americans are weak!
About time the courts reign this guy in.
Obama will still do what he wants because there are never any consequences for his actions. The republicans seem to be to afraid to challenge him on anything and the democrats for the most part are just as corrupt as Obama. The man should have been impeached years ago!
Asking a former contitutional professor (obama) to abide by the Constitution and to uphold the oath he swore (with his hand on the BIBLE -- which amazingly didn't burst into flames when he touched it) is like asking the Crips to abide by the gun laws in Chicago. Good for a laugh, but thats all....
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