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Supreme Court rejects Obama’s recess appointments

June 26, 2014 at 9:41 am Robert Zimmerman Points of Information

The law is such an inconvenient thing: In a 9-0 ruling, the Supreme Court has decided that Barack Obama’s fake recess appointments were unconstitutional.

Two and one-half years ago in 2012, Obama tried to slip-in appointments to the National Labor Relations Board without the constitutionally required Senate approval, claiming he had the right to do so because the Senate was in recess. There’s only one problem. The Senate was not in formal recess when Obama made the dictatorial appointments.

Now the Supreme Court of the United States has ruled in a unanimous 9-0 decision that Obama doesn’t get to define when the U.S. Senate is in recess, the Senate does.

I am gratified that all the Democratic appointees to the court ruled against Obama, refusing to allow their partisan tendencies to overrule the plain language of the Constitution. More information about the ruling and its history here.

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A third federal court has ruled that Obama’s fake recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Broad violated the Constitution.

July 18, 2013 at 9:23 am Robert Zimmerman Points of Information

The law is such an inconvenient thing: A third federal court has ruled that Obama’s fake recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Broad violated the Constitution.

The worst part of this violation by Obama and his cohorts is that, even after these rulings, the illegally appointed board has continued to issue regulations, ignoring the decisions of all the courts.

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A second appeals court has ruled that Obama’s appointments to the National Labor Relations Board were unconstitutional.

May 16, 2013 at 11:08 am Robert Zimmerman Points of Information

The law is such an inconvenient thing: A second appeals court has ruled that Obama’s appointments to the National Labor Relations Board were unconstitutional.

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An appeals court has unanimously decided that Barack Obama violated the Constitution when he tried to make appointments to the NLRB when the Senate was not in recess.

January 25, 2013 at 10:29 am Robert Zimmerman Points of Information

The law is such an inconvenient thing: An appeals court has unanimously decided that Barack Obama violated the Constitution when he tried to make appointments to the NLRB when the Senate was not in recess.

The Constitution is very clear on this issue (see article I, section 5). It is up to the Senate to decide when it is in recess, not the President. Obama’s attempt to ignore the clear words of the Constitution here is an ugly example of his willingness to place himself above the law, something no American citizen of either party should take lightly.

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A private organization is now taking the White House to court over the president’s decision to install three new members on the National Board Relations board without Senate approval.

January 13, 2012 at 8:45 pm Robert Zimmerman Points of Information

The court suits begin: A private organization is now taking the White House to court over the president’s decision to install three new members on the National Board Relations board without Senate approval.

Once again, President Obama’s decision to make these appointments in this unprecedented manner, when it was obvious the appointments would be challenged legally, was a terrible decision that will do no good and a great deal of harm. At minimum, it puts a cloud over anything these appointees do.

Above all, this action is further evidence that this President is an arrogant man with no interest in running the government in a manner that is reasonable or fair.

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Boeing and union settle NLRB suit over South Carolina plant

November 30, 2011 at 4:12 pm Robert Zimmerman Points of Information

Government extortion wins! Boeing has agreed to concessions to its Washington state union in order to settle their NLRB suit over Boeing’s new South Carolina plant.

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General Electric, whose CEO is a strong Obama backer, gets no flack from the NLRB for building an aircraft factory in a right-to-work state.

November 3, 2011 at 9:44 am Robert Zimmerman Points of Information

Most curious: General Electric, whose CEO is a strong Obama backer, gets no flack from the NLRB for building an aircraft factory in a right-to-work state.

When it came to Boeing, however, which is not a strong Obama backer, the NLRB has done everything it can to interfere.

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National Labor Relations Board tells a church university it’s not religious

August 30, 2011 at 1:17 pm Robert Zimmerman Points of Information

Obama’s National Labor Relations Board has now told a Catholic university it is not religious enough to be exempt from union organizing, even though the Supreme Court has ruled the board has no right to do any such thing.

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Union-Controlled National Labor Relations Board approves union violence in union election

March 14, 2011 at 10:39 pm Robert Zimmerman Points of Information

This is beyond belief: The National Labor Relations Board (its members appointed by the Obama administration) has approved the use of physical threats and abuse by unions in union elections.

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