I won’t hold my breath thinking that any politician will hold Obama’s feet to the fire, either.
McConnell is dead to me if he doesn’t do something about this. Boehner has done his best by keeping Congress open.
The Chamber of Commerce is considering a lawsuit.
In any case, it will take time for this to come to fruition, and I think it’s going to take some entity other than Congress to get the court’s attention.
Although, the best entity to sue would be Congress.
The good thing is that we do have the Constitution, and it’s as plain as day what is said there.
I am much more pessimistic than you about Republicans chances and ability to do anything about this, including turn it into a negative for Obama. This is just a part of his re-election theme about not waiting for congress to act on ' helping the middle class'.
As has been pointed out here the US constitution doesn't define specifically what ‘congressional recess’ means. Obama(and Democrats) say it was 'in recess', congressional Republicans says it wasn't. The courts don't like to get involved with procedural disagreements between congress and the WH.
Obama is proof that you are mistaken.
The Constitution has been ignored by both political parties, and the majority of Freepers and many Conservatives just shrug it off.
Shameful.