Showing posts with label obama. Show all posts
Showing posts with label obama. Show all posts

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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Sunday, January 8, 2012

Obama Administration Tests Constitutional Power After Controversial Appointment

 It seems more and more people and organizations are jumping on board the train to rough up Obama on his Constitution over-stepping.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce may sue the Obama administration over President Obama's controversial appointment of Richard Cordray to head a controversial consumer financial board, officials from the business group told Fox News on Wednesday after an unprecedented display of executive power that is sure to poison already-strained relations with the GOP.

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Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Jim Babka, DownsizeDC on the Police State NDAA


 NDAA: Open Season for the Police State
How the New Indefinite Detention Provisions can be used on Americans
Congress just passed, and the President just signed, a bill that gives legal authority to the President to kidnap and perpetually imprison persons, including American citizens, without the benefit of due process.
Members of Congress, in the days leading up to the vote, tried to assure their constituents that they have nothing to fear — that the bill doesn’t apply to Americans.
Some were lying. Most were deceived.




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