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Home Front: Politix
Kagan, Breyer Join GOP Justices to Strike Down Unconstitutional Obama Appointment
2017-03-22
[FreeBeacon] The Supreme Court ruled that President Obama violated the Constitution when he maintained an acting agency appointment after the Senate refused to confirm him.

The court ruled Tuesday that Obama appointee Lafe Solomon illegally served as acting general counsel to the National Labor Relations Board from 2010 to 2013. Solomon, who once violated the agency's ethics rules, should have vacated the position in accordance with the Federal Vacancies Reform Act of 1998 (FVRA) after the Senate refused to take up his nomination to serve as permanent general counsel in 2011, the court found in a 6-2 opinion authored by Chief Justice John Roberts. The appointment was an "end-run around" the Constitution.

"We cannot cast aside the separation of powers and the Appointments Clause's important check on executive power for the sake of administrative convenience or efficiency," the majority ruled.
A legal precedent landmine for President Trump? Listening to "One Piece At A Time" backwards?
Posted by:Blossom Unains5562

#6  Trump doesn't need to nor want to do what the 'Bamer did.
Posted by: Albert Angusomble1894   2017-03-22 23:08  

#5  So how was he paid for those 4 years? Will there be a clawback?

You're missing the point of this decision. The liberals voted for the majority because this sets a precedent for Trump, i.e. Trump cannot do what Obama did.
Posted by: Zhang Fei   2017-03-22 19:04  

#4  So how was he paid for those 4 years? Will there be a clawback?
Posted by: dk70 the scantily clad   2017-03-22 18:21  

#3  I agree Grom. I was just being sarcastic. This is the province of the lefties. They are manic about removing and destroying Southern history or any other that does not suit them.
Posted by: JohnQC   2017-03-22 08:24  

#2  Revising history, for whatever reason, is never a good idea JQC. The best safeguard against future Obamas, is meticulous record - widely taught, of this one's deeds.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2017-03-22 08:20  

#1  Yawn, anything going to happen as the result of "O's" end-a-round of the Constitution? Not even a strongly worded letter condemning such practices sent to French Polynesia? I didn't think so. The worst president ever--hands down. Any reference to him should be removed from history books. Any statues of him should be taken down. Any streets named after this corrupt fraud should be renamed Main St.
Posted by: JohnQC   2017-03-22 07:57  

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