National Labor Relations Board will appeal to Supreme Court on recess appointments

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The National Labor Relations Board will ask the Supreme Court to review the federal appeals court ruling invalidating President Obama’s recess appointments to the NLRB, rather than asking the entire Washington, D.C., circuit court to review the case: “There are scads of other cases now working their way through the courts of appeals and this… Read more »

Recess Appointments and the Balance of Powers

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Over the course of our Republic, presidents have often tested the limits of their constitutional power. Without the checks provided for in the Constitution our executive branch would easily have digested the other two long ago. But as long as the legislative and judicial branches invoke their constitutional responsibility, executive overreach is contained. When they… Read more »