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White House disagrees with court recess appointment decision
WASHINGTON |
WASHINGTON Jan 25 (Reuters) - The White House on Friday said it disagrees with a U.S. federal appeals court's "novel and unprecedented" decision to reject President Barack Obama's "recess appointments" to a labor board last year, but declined to say whether the administration would appeal.
"We respectfully but strongly disagree with the rulings," White House spokesman Jay Carney said at a briefing. "There have been, according to the Congressional Research Service, something like 280-plus intra-session recess appointments by ... Democratic and Republican administrations dating back to 1867."
Carney referred questions about the administration's next steps to the Justice Department.
He also said the court decision was about one case and has no bearing on Richard Cordray, whom the president used a recess appointment to install as head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
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The repub party is sold out to the southern baptist / evangelicals for whom a blaiack president is their nightmare come true.
And they are sold out to eg the $20 billion NW koch brothers and their mostly repub pals on wall street who ripped off American families of about $15 TRillion in famnily net worth with their real estate * banking scams.
Hopefully we will see more of this down the road. Obama seems to think he can do anything, make any law. Making laws is really the perview of Congress, not the President. Obama needs a leash like this.
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