Michael Barone via Neal Boortz: [Obama's] "scorn for the Constitution is something else. That scorn has been expressed most recently in his “recess” appointments of members of the National Labor Relations Board and the chairmanship of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The quotation marks are appropriate because when he made the appointments the Senate was not in recess as the Constitution requires."
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"The Framers of the Constitution saw it a different way. When the Senate refuses to confirm a presidential appointee, that person does not take office. When the Senate is not in recess, the president cannot make a recess appointment."The Framers thought it more important to limit power than for government to act quickly. Barack Obama disagrees."
Naturally the legal cover was provided by Obama's Justice Department headed by Eric Holder, whose department also refused to enforce immigration laws and to declare Black Panther voter intimidation illegal. As the above article points out:
The White House has belatedly trotted out an opinion from the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel (headed by a political appointee) saying that the president was justified in considering the Senate in recess, because the sessions it was holding every three days were just pro forma or, in the words of Obama defenders, “gimmicks.”
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| http://townhall.com/political-cartoons/2012/01/16/95481 |
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