Doubtful
Does he still have his pen and his phone?
No. That cannot be done. Senate has to approve the nominee to the court.
Congress can block it if they have the cojones to do it.
No.
But when has that ever stopped him?
It would be revolution though. That’s not an exaggeration either.
I don’t think so...but you never know with this sodomite muslim scumbag
Don’t go into recess.
Obama will appoint a Muslim
the Senate will not be going into recess. the Repubs will use all the plays in the playbook -
The Supreme Court delivered a blow Thursday to President Obama, ruling that he went too far in making recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board.
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In a unanimous decision, the high court sided with Senate Republicans and limited the president's power to fill high-level vacancies with temporary appointments. It was the first-ever Supreme Court test involving the long-standing practice of presidents naming appointees when the Senate is on break.
In this case, Obama had argued that the Senate was on an extended holiday break when he filled slots at the NLRB in 2012. He argued the brief sessions it held every three days were a sham that was intended to prevent him from filling the seats.
The justices rejected that argument, though, declaring the Senate was not actually in a formal recess when Obama acted during that three-day window.
He can do what he wants now that the courts are in his favor.
You can be sure that the Rats are going to pull all the stops to get their guy in. We have to be just as determined to stop them.
The Supreme Court ruled unanimously Thursday that President Obama exceeded his constitutional authority in making high-level government appointments in 2012 when he declared the Senate to be in recess and unable to act on the nominations.
Obama made appointments to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) at a time when the Senate was holding pro forma sessions every three days precisely to thwart the president's ability to exercise the power.
"The Senate is in session when it says it is," Justice Stephen G. Breyer wrote for the court, stressing that if the Senate is able to conduct business, that is enough to keep the president from making recess appointments.
But the court stepped back from handing Obama - and those who will follow him in the Oval Office - a more substantial loss. A bare majority of the justices upheld, in theory at least, the president's ability to make recess appointments when the Senate is indeed on extended break, saying history weighs in favor of a broad power.
The decision comes at a time when Republican opposition to the president's policies and Obama's vow to bypass a gridlocked Congress by using his executive powers have consumed Washington.
Read the decision...
Earl Warren was recess-appointed to the Supreme Court by Eisenhower (later confirmed by the Senate). So yes, it can be done. The Senate has to actually be in recess, though, and the appointment is only good for a year or so.
Why would he need to do that?
The GOP confirmed Lynch...they will confirm his SCOTUS pick.
obama was already slapped down by the court on recess appointments — and in so doing, ruined it for all future presidents.
The Senate - not Obama - decides when it is in recess, and thus when he could make such an appointment.....
President Washington appointed John Rutledge as CJ. He was subsequently rejected by the Senate. President Eisenhower had teo. Justice Brennan who was later confirmed and CJ Warren who was likewise confirmed. So yes. Obama can and will do it.
William Brennan was a recess appointment to the court by Ike.
Technically, yes, but Congress passed a resolution, sense of Congress, in 1960 counseling against it. Such has happened (recess appoint a SCOTUS justice) in history.