Posted on 06/26/2014 7:06:44 AM PDT by navysealdad
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court has limited a president's power to make temporary appointments to fill high-level government jobs.
The court said Thursday that President Barack Obama exceeded his authority when he invoked the Constitution's provision on recess appointments to fill slots on the National Labor Relations Board in 2012.
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How, in any rational way could any actions taken against the confederacy and the confederate states be unconstititutional? Those states abandoned that Constitution and declared that it no longer applied to them. To claim that it was unconstitutional would mean that the Constitution does not apply to them any longer but if you do something they don’t like then it does apply to them. The democrat party still uses that false argument today.
A full 30 to 40% of our fellow Americans will support this President and his political party no matter what crimes are committed by them or their drones in the bureaucracy (see the IRS and EPA) . The media will make sure to make them sound like the majority of the country and will continue to make sure the GOP remains the party that is scared of it’s own shadow. Impeachment WILL NEVER happened no matter how high the crimes and misdemeanors. Poor Richard Nixon must be spinning around in his grave. Democrats and their minions are fully exempt from constitutional checks and balances. They will find a way to circumvent this court ruling too.
I’m no fan of the South in the civil war, I’m glad the North won for the simple fact that slavery is an evil, an objective evil that cannot be tolerated in a human society.
But I’ve never heard that secession was un-Constitutional. In fact the impression I got from my history lessons in high school (a public school at that) is that it was entirely Constitutional.
I really don’t know the facts there. I’m open to arguments from either side.
Libs naturally saying the decision is racist.
51 was for judicial appointments only.
and, it will eventually help us too.
Bork, Estrada...
Those advocating secession are ignorant and like the proponents in 1860 are fooling themselves. It didn’t work when they had contiguous states and were able to convince the ignorant non-slaveholding poor to support the democrat planter’s personal economic cause. It is a fool’s pursuit that indicates abandonment of the Republic and the Constitution.
There may be a need to take actions to throw out the tyrant and the tyrant’s party but those actions would have to be more of the form of a REV2.
With 51 certain votes in the Senate, Reid can expand the nuclear option to include any presidential appointees he wants.
All McConnell and company will do is whine about it.
All I can say about that is there was a US Supreme Court decision saying that his actions were Unconstitutional, and he basically ignored the decision. That’s simply a fact of history.
So, there is precedent for a President to ignore a US Supreme Court decision which says a President’s actions are Unconstitutional.
Maybe SCOTUS is actually fulfilling its responsibilities by protecting the Constitution and the separation of powers. They are sending a message to Obama that his abuse of power will not go unanswered. A shot across the bow.
**The court said Thursday that President Barack Obama exceeded his authority when he invoked the Constitution’s provision on recess appointments to fill slots on the National Labor Relations Board in 2012.**
And many others!
Temper tantrum time. Will he kick the door again?
Madison versus Marbury
I wish I didn’t think this is just so much more show for the sheeple. Especially since it is unanimous. Same goes for boneheads suing the pos in the white hut. I’m sure that to was all discussed measured and focus group tested and screened before release.
We are being played in every respect to keep us from rising up against our overlords and to keep making us so weak we are no threat at all. They have to keep us working for them. Slaves are all we are. They just have to give us enough bones to keep us going and thinking things are just acceptable.
Where in the Constitution is there any explict right given to the states to secede? The states bound themselves to the Republic and the Constitution when they ratified the document or when they petitioned and were awarded statehood.
The isn’t any “tap-out” clause I know of. Again, secession, especially today, is an ignorant concept doomed to failure.
KUDOS to the SUPREMES!!!
Could they be the only people with any power in this Nation who have BACKBONES??
You really think this will stop The One? He has a phone and a pen.
He may finally go beyond clumsy teleprompterless rambling...and finally “go” utterly speechless.....
prepare for the video “footage” of the decade!!
speaking of PROMPTS....this may well prompt MOOCH to post another Hashtag Photo
The supreme court of his time was made up of justices who were appointed by his predecessors who had declared for rulings such as Dred Scott. Their ruling had NOTHING to do with constitutionality and had no basis under the Constitution. The majority of his SC were blatant supporters of slavery.
“You really think this will stop The One? He has a phone and a pen.”
Chances are about fifty fifty!
there’s always the POSSIBILITY that he may at some point hit THE WALL!!!
There will be no overt ignoring of this ruling by Obama. And since Reid has implemented the nuclear option on appointments, Reid will rush to fill the vacant positions prior to the midterms or during the lame duck session. Obama will expedite all appointments should the Reps gain control of the Senate in the midterms.
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