SCOTUS Slaps Down Obama Recess Appointments

[IrezumiKiss]

Your Napoleon Complex is showing.

He has an amazing ability to read minds.

Looks like it's Statler and Waldorf time again.

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[miles]

$20 he's under 5'9".

In heels.

 

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[lovecraft68]

I look at it as a sign of stupidity whenever someone puts Obama and Hitler in the same sentence.

Me too, Hitler was much smarter than Obama. Little more subtle in the beginning as well.

Also in his twisted way Hitler reunited a country Obama is destroying this one.

Granted Obama is more benign he does not want to commit genocide he only wants to create a caste system in a democratic country. His only goal is softening this country so his buddies in the east can take it over more easily.

 

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[Boxlicker101]

Sounds like he's willing to do his job to me.

Passing laws is the job of the legislature, not the president.

 

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[KingOrfeo]

Your Napoleon Complex is showing.

Nah, it only shows when I try to conquer Russia. I keep doing that, you'd think I'd learn, it never works out, they always go all scorched-earth on me, the spiteful bastards.

 

[Sean Renaud]

Passing laws is the job of the legislature, not the president.

He's not passing laws, he's governing a country. Which is exactly what he's supposed to be doing. What's shameful is how uncooperative Congress has been.

Me too, Hitler was much smarter than Obama. Little more subtle in the beginning as well.

Also in his twisted way Hitler reunited a country Obama is destroying this one.

Granted Obama is more benign he does not want to commit genocide he only wants to create a caste system in a democratic country. His only goal is softening this country so his buddies in the east can take it over more easily.

America has and has always had a Caste System and it's been getting worse for a long time before Obama showed up. This has got to be one of the stupidest posts in lit history.

 

[KingOrfeo]

Napoleon was of average height for his time and place, BTW. He did spent his whole life overcompensating for a sense of inferiority -- but it was social, not physical; he was of a provincial gentry family, and got a scholarship to a military academy where his classmates were mostly much higher-born, and you can be sure they let him know it.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

From The Nation:

What the SCOTUS Decision Ending Obama’s Recess Appointment Power Means

George Zornick on June 26, 2014 - 1:11 PM ET

President Obama overstepped his power when he named three people to the National Labor Relations Board at the end of 2011, the Supreme Court decided unanimously on Thursday.

Here’s the background: since 2009, Senate Republicans undertook routine obstruction of President Obama’s appointments by wielding a filibuster that required sixty votes to break. They did this against all sorts of nominees, for offices big and small; in some cases, Republicans didn’t even bother to claim a substantive problem with the nominee. The only criteria for a filibuster, at times, seemed to be that Obama nominated that person.

One area where this was extremely problematic was the National Labor Relations Board—three members had their five-year terms expire in 2012, and Senate Republicans filibustered Obama’s replacements. With three empty seats, the NLRB would not have a quorum to function, and the practical effect would be that US labor law would no longer be enforced. (It’s not hard to see this as the GOP’s goal here).

The White House didn’t want this to happen, and Obama contemplated and ultimately made “recess appointments” to the three seats.

The law around presidential appointments during recess has historically been vague. Article II, section 2, clause three of the Constitution grants the president “power to fill up all vacancies that may happen during the recess of the Senate, by granting commissions which shall expire at the end of their next session.” That was a sensible clause for an era when it could take weeks for Congress to return to Washington via horse and buggy—if the war secretary died of tuberculosis, it would not be practical to wait that long to confirm a replacement.

In the modern era, how should that clause be interpreted? Presidents began making recess appointments when the Senate gaveled out of session, even for a few days, which was clearly within the letter of the law, though probably not the original spirit. That was legally fine—even three Supreme Court members were appointed in that fashion.

In the aughts, to prevent President Bush from placing un-confirmable nominees into office when the Senate broke for recess, Senator Harry Reid devised a strategy to hold “pro forma” sessions every three days. This consisted of a senator coming to the floor when everyone else was out of town, gaveling the Senate into session, and then right back out. As a technical matter, the Senate was always in session, and the president could not make recess appointments.

Republicans later adopted this strategy, but Obama—bolstered by a lower-court ruling that those pro forma sessions were not legitimate—decided in late 2011 to issue three recess appointments to the NLRB to keep it functioning in late 2011 in the midst of some pro-forma sessions. This is what is at issue in Thursday’s case, NLRB v. Canning.

The administration urged the justices to look at the practical matter here: the Senate was not really in session in any true sense, and the pro-forma sessions every three days were an obvious ploy by Republicans to prevent recess appointments.

The justices disagreed:



In effect, this ends all recess appointments by the president, except in a rare scenario outlined by the Court in which the House and Senate disagree about the congressional calendar.

What does all this mean? In the short term, not much: Obama withdrew those now-illegal appointments, and the Senate confirmed three others to the NLRB earlier last year. Democrats then undertook rules reform this year that eliminated the filibuster on non-judicial appointments. That removed any real need for Obama to make recess appointments.

But, should things go poorly for Democrats in November, the Senate will become Republican. If history is a guide, they will block any further Obama appointments almost as a matter of reflex. And now recess appointments will be out of the question.

The long-term implications for organized labor here are also dire, as Ian Millhiser at the Center for American Progress has been relentlessly pointing out. The three seats in question here have terms that expire in 2018.

So: imagine a scenario in which Republicans hold the Senate in 2018, and refuse to confirm a Democratic president’s nominees to the NLRB, even if they are entirely noncontroversial. There will now be no recourse, and the NLRB will go dark.

tee hee

tee hee

The Senate will never be in recess for more than 9 days!

Thank you Harry Reid for teaching us that all you have to do is change the rules...

 

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[4est_4est_Gump]

Yes, thank you Harry, see how you like the nuclear option.

You shall reap that which thou hast soweth...

 

[nowisthetime]

Typical of the new-age Alinsky Liberal, isolate, denigrate and ridicule for then you do not have to engage in dialog or even thinking. You know what you feel, and what you feel is right, because everyone you agree with and like feels the same way and thus truthiness rules the day and facts can be discarded and ignored.

No one was talking to you, are they your butt buddies?

They get attacked for the racist drivel that they expose and their juvenile attacks on people's appearances, so they get surprised when it is dished back to them.

I'm not a liberal nor a conservative.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

No one was talking to you, are they your butt buddies?

They get attacked for the racist drivel that they expose and their juvenile attacks on people's appearances, so they get surprised when it is dished back to them.

I'm not a liberal nor a conservative.

That's what they all say.



but...

A_J's corollary #9, “When a Republican does it, it is a high crime and misdemeanor, when a Democrat does it, then it is, *shrug*, they ALL do it...”

 

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[Disgustipated]

Another alt with not enough posts, but knows Lit history.

You can't read.

 

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[Disgustipated]

The Early Bird kicked the old man out early.

 

[nowisthetime]

That's what they all say.



but...

A_J's corollary #9, “When a Republican does it, it is a high crime and misdemeanor, when a Democrat does it, then it is, *shrug*, they ALL do it...”

We are going around in circles here.

To be honest, on this board, the far right has shown explicit hatred and bigotry to many groups of people, blacks, women, gays, Muslims, Hispanics, any group that does not consist of being older, white, male, Christian, and straight. For example, Ishmael compared Muslims to cockroaches and none of his right wing buddies said anything. Silence is complacency.

Constant attacks of other posters' appearances when they do not agree with what they say, that is not something to be expected from men who are past the age of 50.

That's middle school shit.




Their hatred of the President is obviously fueled in part by the color of his skin as witnessed by Bunny constantly calling the President a coon or a nigger. Yet he claims nigger is a colorblind word, but he only uses it towards people of color. I got called a fat (fat to him means not a bag of bones) nigger cunt by him. So is that word really color blind? Luckily he is safe behind his computer screen.


Those are some of the examples.

Many of those on the left have been bullheaded as well, but that is only in response to the hateful, misguided drivel from those on the far right.

There are very few posters from the right who are not extremists and can articulate their arguments in a clear and non hateful way.

I am willing to listen to other viewpoints if it doesn't involve pure hate. It is only once you attack, that is when claws will come out.

 

[Sean Renaud]

Yes, thank you Harry, see how you like the nuclear option.

I like the nuclear option just fine. Not that this was the nuclear option, it's just proof that people have been breaking the law for decades and nobody called them on it. Something about Obama was sufficiently special that he got called out on it.

 

[IrezumiKiss]

We are going around in circles here.

To be honest, on this board, the far right has shown explicit hatred and bigotry to many groups of people, blacks, women, gays, Muslims, Hispanics, any group that does not consist of being older, white, male, Christian, and straight. For example, Ishmael compared Muslims to cockroaches and none of his right wing buddies said anything. Silence is complacency.

Constant attacks of other posters' appearances when they do not agree with what they say, that is not something to be expected from men who are past the age of 50.

That's middle school shit.




Their hatred of the President is obviously fueled in part by the color of his skin as witnessed by Bunny constantly calling the President a coon or a nigger. Yet he claims nigger is a colorblind word, but he only uses it towards people of color. I got called a fat nigger cunt by him. So is that word really color blind? Luckily he is safe behind his computer screen.


Those are some of the examples.

Many of those on the left have been bullheaded as well, but that is only in response to the hateful, misguided drivel from those on the far right.

There are very few posters from the right who are not extremists and can articulate their arguments in a clear and non hateful way.

I am willing to listen to other viewpoints if it doesn't involve pure hate. It is only once you attack, that is when claws will come out.

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[nowisthetime]

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Bada Bing.

Right wing poster A: What a dumb fucking nigger

Response from a rational human being: You are such a jackass

Response from right wing poster's butt buddy to rational human being: Why are you being so mean (thus completely ignoring the filth spewed from Right Wing Poster A.

That is exactly what goes on this board with many of these right wingers.

 

[about_average]

Another alt with not enough posts, but knows Lit history.

I'm betting you're complete oblivious to how stupid that comment makes you look.