The Supreme Court yesterday limited the president's power to fill high-level vacancies with temporary appointments, ruling in favor of Senate Republicans in their partisan clash with President Barack Obama, the Associated Press website reports today (June 27, 2014).
The high court's first-ever case involving the Constitution's recess appointments clause ended in a unanimous decision holding that Obama's appointments to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) in 2012 -- without Senate confirmation -- were illegal. Obama invoked the Constitutional provision giving the president the power to make temporary appointments when the Senate is in recess.
But the court ruled that the Senate was not actually in a formal recess when Obama acted. In fact, Justice Stephen Breyer -- who wrote the unanimous opinion -- said that a congressional break must last at least 10 days to be considered a recess under the Constitution.
This is the third recent serious blow to Obama's dictatorial and unconstitutional use of his power of his position of U.S. president. Earlier this week, it was revealed that South Dakota's Republican Party adopted a resolution to impeach Obama for his unconstitutional rule of the nation, and also this week, U.S. House Speaker John Boehner filed a lawsuit against Obama's repeated violation of his oath of office as well as his neglect of referring matters to Congress when required to do so by law.
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