Saturday, January 14, 2012

First challenge on new Obama appointees : SCOTUSblog

Following up on a previous post concerning the "recess appointments", below is the first challenge to the NLRB appointment:

(January 13, 2012) A group of business organizations and individual firms on Friday began the first challenge to President Obama’s new government appointments while the Senate is out of town, using a case involving the National Labor Relations Board to test the issue. In a motion filed in U.S. District Court in Washington, along with a legal memorandum, the challengers argued that the NLRB has no power to go ahead with a pending rule on workers’ rights because the three new appointees were not legally named, so the Board has no operating quorum.


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