By James Rosen, The Kansas City Star
The Supreme Court is expected to take up a groundbreaking separation-of-powers case later this month that features a constitutional clash between the president’s right to make recess appointments and the Senate’s authority to confirm high-level picks.
By Marc Bloch, Crain’s Cleveland Business
It was more than a year ago that I wrote my first blog for Crain’s entitled “NLRB: An Agency in Search of Relevance.”
By Labor Union Report, RedState.com
The Obama Administration, Senate Democrats and their union handlers must be concerned about the Supreme Court’s hearing the issue of Obama’s “recess” appointments at the National Labor Relations Board.
By Sean Higgins, The Washington Examiner
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., announced that all 44 of his fellow Senate Republicans joined him in signing an amicus brief urging the Supreme Court to invalidate President Obama’s recess appointments.
On May 22, 2013 the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions approved President Barack Obama’s five nominees for the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB).
By Sean Higgins, The Washington Examiner
Senate Health, Education Labor and Pensions Committee members approved the nominations of the White House’s five picks to run the National Labor Relations Board. Several Republicans objected to two of the nominees, though, indicating they will face trouble in the full Senate. That means the NLRB — which lacks a valid quorum — may remain in limbo a while longer.
By Chris Woodward, One News Now
Last Thursday, May 16, a second federal appeals court ruled that President Obama exceeded his power in making recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board, as the Senate was not actually on recess at the time of the appointments.
By Carlyn Kolker, Reuters
The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday said an appointment President Barack Obama made to the National Labor Relations Board was invalid, becoming the second circuit to question the validity of the labor board’s decisions.
chattanoogan.com
U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander, the ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, Thursday said he would oppose the nominations of Sharon Block and Richard Griffin to the National Labor Relations Board because “they continued to decide cases after the federal appellate court unanimously decided they were unconstitutionally appointed.”
By Hans Bader, Openmarket.org
Another federal appeals court has ruled that President Obama’s so-called “recess appointments” to the National Labor Relations Board were unconstitutional because the Senate was not in recess at the time: “We hold that the Recess of the Senate in the Recess Appointments Clause refers to only intersession breaks.”