Friday, January 25, 2013

"I Don't Need the Steeeenkin' Constitution!"--Obozo

Well, the Supreme Mullah got slapped around by the DC Circuit today.


President Barack Obama violated the Constitution when he bypassed the Senate last year to appoint three members of the National Labor Relations Board, a federal appeals court ruled Friday in a far-reaching decision that could severely limit a chief executive's powers to make recess appointments.



The decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit marked a victory for Republicans and business groups critical of the labor board. If it stands, it could invalidate hundreds of board decisions over the past year, including some that make it easier for unions to organize.

That ruling will not be reversed on appeal.

Suck a lemon, SCOAMF.

ADDED:  Quin Hillyer is no optimist.

...But allow just a little further prediction. When the high court so rules, and Obama’s “humiliation” is confirmed, The One in the Oval Office will have a conniption fit. As it so happens, such a high court ruling will probably be just one in a series of about five or six key decisions in the next 18-24 months that will go directly against Obama administration arguments, actions, and abuses. Look, therefore, for Obama to resurrect his constitutionally dangerous, full-frontal assault against the Supreme Court and the courts in general, trying to undermine their very legitimacy. In fact, so unhinged may be Obama’s power lust that he might even try to openly defy an explicit Supreme Court ruling, maybe even citing Andrew Jackson’s infamous (perhaps apocryphal) statement from Worcester v. Georgia that the chief justice “has made his decision; now let him enforce it.”

In short, I see in this and other developing cases the potential for serious constitutional crisis, brought on by Obama’s authoritarian impulses....

OK, here it comes:    BUY.  MORE.  AMMO!!!

7 comments:

Al said...

See comment for "Slap Two"!

Anonymous said...

Forty-one of 100 Senators can block nominees and then go into permanent session to prevent recess appointments, which, in effect, abolishes the National Labor Relations Board without the inconvenience of passing legislation. I know we live in a Republic, not a democracy, but this is minority rule in the extreme.

Anonymous said...

This decision is in conflict with a similar court decision so is not settled. In fact, the decision is a radically new interpretation of the Constitution and would have invalidated 141 of George W. Bush's recess appointments and scores of others going back at least as far as the 1940s.

Anonymous said...

Activist conservative justices? The nerve...

Anonymous said...

Well, they ARE all judges appointed by Reagan, Bush 41 and Bush 43. Count on Thomas to uphold.

Dad29 said...

would have invalidated 141 of George W. Bush's recess appointments and scores of others going back at least as far as the 1940s.

So what?

Anonymous said...

So it was apparently not an issue until the black guy got elected.