By Matt Rooney | The Save Jersey Blog
Conservatives and Liberals on America’s High Court agree on one point, Save Jerseyans: Barack Obama is a not a king.
That’s the gist of today’s unanimous U.S. Supreme Court ruling (click here to read the NLRB v. Noel Canning opinion), authored by Justice Breyer, confirming that the President of the United States acted illegally when he made three recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board back in January 2012 in order to circumvent to the Senate confirmation process.
“Because the Senate was in session during its pro forma sessions,” the Justice wrote, “the President made the recess appointments at issue during a 3-day
recess. Three days is too short a time to bring a recess within the
scope of the Clause, so the President lacked the authority to make
those appointments.”
New Jersey’s own Rep. Leonard Lance (R-07) says it’s “a victory for the Constitution and the rule of law.”
“By invalidating the President’s appointments to the National Labor Relations Board” Lance concluded, “the Court has reaffirmed unanimously that we are a Nation of three co-equal branches of government with a system of checks and balances that cannot be subject to continued executive abuse.”
Amen!
Lance previously cosponsored a resolution affirming the House of Representatives’s position that the appointments violated the U.S. Constitution.
