Posted on 01/04/2012 6:12:12 PM PST by tobyhill
What happens when the president makes a recess appointment when the Senate is not technically on recess?
Nobody knows.
But President Barack Obama’s decision to jam the Senate and install three labor nominees and a consumer watchdog without a confirmation vote raises unsettled legal questions that could have a long-lasting impact past his presidency.
“This is not a nice, clear-cut area at all,” said Robert Dove, a former Senate parliamentarian, when asked about the implications of the president’s move.
Legal experts said Wednesday that there was no precedent for such recess appointments and that it would likely be put to the test in the courts by industry groups seeking to challenge regulations issued by the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, whose new head, Richard Cordray, received an appointment even though the chamber was technically in session every few days.
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It’s just politics.
You lie, Politico.
It’s a shame none of the Rs in DC have the cojones to ram this right into federal court and give Obama one more thing to have to defend himself against.
Better be front and center on the debates...yea I know....I can dream.
But RS and Newt really better run with it hard and fast. It’s a gift. A gateway to get by all his other media coverups with the racism charge. Because there is no presidence.
Congress needs to hit back hard on this.
I admit a bit of surprise that even Reid is falling in line about this. Anything that chops away from the prerogatives of the Senate directly impacts his power.
And if Obama gets away with it once, he’ll keep right on going until he gets everything he wants — or he’s stopped. This has to be impeachment territory.
So what's left is private citizens taking action in the courts, who will most likely shrug their shoulders and point at the senate and the house as the places to have this settled, as they have mechanisms for keeping the president from overstepping his bounds.
The whole dog and pony show over who's running for president (or in Obama’s case, present) means nothing compared to taking back the people's house from the liberals, both in and out of the GOP.
Obama has blatantly ingnored the Constitution in at least 7 instances: http://www.onenewsnow.com/Perspectives/Default.aspx?id=1437376
Impeachment time for this arse.
Radio talk show host Mark Levin was quite clear on this issue - it was illegal since the House was still in session and the Senate cannot adjourn without the consent of the House and vis-versa.
The “Communist In Chief” just came out of the red closet, not only on this Constitution-ignoring act, an impeachable act, but also in his Shaker Heights Cleveland high school speech where he talk the students (these blithering ignorant assholes), that he would do want he wanted to and ignore the expressed limits that the Constitution places on an imperial presidency re the rights of the Congress.
(Again, hattip to Levin for playing some of this speech).
Did you know that the last “O” in Politico stood for “Uh Oh, we screwed up again with our ignorance of the Constitution”?
IT IS TIME TO FORM A NATIONAL “IMPEACH OBAMA COMMITTEE”. He has shredded the Constitution or corrupted it, aided and abetted by the marxists and crooks he has appointed.
Time to change the national slogan from “Hail to the Chief” to “Jail to the Theft” (he is stealing our freedom).
It is time that loyal Americans stood up and said “No More”.
Milhouse Nixon is a piker, compared to the asshat-in-cheese.
Such "journalism" is proof POSITIVE the media--local, national, and 'net-based are eager to fellate Hussein!
Can you imagine if Bush did this what the headline would say? Would it say Bush's authority was MURKY? Hell, no. The headlines ALL would talk about Bush's abrogation of precedent, the Constitutional crisis he was creating for political gain, and the PROBLEM with executives who overreach their authority.
Not with Hussein.
Dammit, folks, we have to not only beat this assclown in November, we need to begin to change the CULTURE in news media. Teach kids the truth, and encourage them to infiltrate these industries.
Exactly git rid of the P.O.S. AND HIS CREW.
I think this is just the beginning, obumber is pushing for a fight. He will only become more aggressive until he gets his fight. That is his whole reelection strategy. Boner is in a bad place because he has been weak all along. Nothing he can do now, it’s lose-lose situation for the republicans. obumber has the media and apparently some balls, the gop has boner and mcConel. We are screwed!
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