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"In a defiant display of executive power, President Barack Obama on Wednesday will “stick his thumb in the eye” of GOP opposition and name Richard Cordray as the nation’s chief consumer watchdog. Outraged Republican leaders in Congress suggested that courts would determine the appointment was illegal."
Will not be surprised if one day he steps out wearing a Castro style military uniform, smoking a Cuban cigar, and declare himself El Presidente for life.
President Obama will recess-appoint his nominees to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), bypassing a likely filibuster from Senate Republicans to keep the controversial agency operating in 2012.
The president will use a recess appointment to install Sharon Block, Richard Griffin and Terence Flynn as members of the NLRB. Block and Griffin are Democrats, while Flynn is a Republican.
...then-Obama Solicitor General Elena Kagan wrote to the Supreme Court on April 26, 2010: “Although a President may fill such vacancies through the use of his recess appointment power … the Senate may act to foreclose this option by declining to recess for more than two or three days at a time over a lengthy period. For example, the Senate did not recess intrasession for more than three days at a time for over a year beginning in late 2007.”
"Checks and balances" a.k.a. "obstructionist tactics in Congress"
You're not in favor of checks and balances in our government? You don't like the President having the power to veto laws passed by Congress? You don't like courts to rule on the legality and constitutionality of laws passed?
Then please organize a constitutional convention to amend the Constitution and change it. Thank you.
"Checks and balances" a.k.a. "obstructionist tactics in Congress"
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