GOP senators sue Obama over sham labor board nominees

[Chris_]

GOP senators sue Obama over sham labor board nominees

In a double-barrelled blast at President Obama, Senate Republicans today moved to join a lawsuit challenging the White House’s Christmas “recess appointment” of National Labor Relations Board members even though the Senate was technically in session. To handle their case, they hired Miguel Estrada, who in 2002 became the first-ever judicial nominee to be torpedoed by a Democratic filibuster.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said that his side would join a suit brought by Noel Canning, a family-owned business in Washington State that bottles and distributes soft drinks. The company is challenging the NLRB’s determination that it must enter into a collective bargaining agreement with a labor union.

Canning’s suit charges that Obama appointments were not lawful because the Senate had scheduled frequent pro-forma sessions to block recess appointments--which the president ignored. Typically nominations to the labor board would be voted on by the Senate.

Washington Examiner

This should be interesting.

[Kyle Ricky]

 

[Mr Mannn]

I just think back to that state of the union speech where the president insulted the members of the USSC who were sitting right there.

Moral of the story. Payback is a bi#ch.