ACLJ Preparing to File Lawsuit over Cordray Appointment

All the while Obama decides we MUST cut the military by 1/2 a billion! I guess cutting our troops pays for his new appointments!

 

Sorry but Bush accepted the premise that the Senate was in session during pro forma sessions and respect the wishes of the Congress.

 

Wrong, the payroll extension was passed during one.

 

The Obama administration argued before the Supreme Court that a 3 day adjournment is NOT a recess and the profoma sessions are NOT a recess.

Originally Posted by Bluesguy View Post
January 4, 2012 1:33pm ? Comments
Obama's DOJ says 'recess' appointment illegal
byJoel Gehrke Commentary Staff Writer
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When President Obama's Department of Justice (DOJ) defends Obama's "recess appointment" -- made today after the Senate adjourned yesterday -- his lawyers will have to argue against the position they took on recess appointments last year, during a Supreme Court hearing.

Deputy Solicitor General Neal Katyal told Chief Justice John Roberts that "the [congressional] recess has to be longer than 3 days" for the president to have the power to make a recess appointment, recalls House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, while criticizing Obama's recess appointment of Richard Cordray to lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

"It turns out that the action not only contradicts long-standing practice, but also the view of the administration itself," Boehner's office notes on his blog.

Katyal's comment on recess appointment powers came during a 2010 case involving whether the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) could operate even when it had only two of the five NLRB members seated. Katyal had to explain why Obama hadn't recess appointed the necessary NLRB members. From the transcript, courtesy of the Speaker's blog:

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS: And the recess appointment power doesn't work why?

MR. KATYAL: The -- the recess appointment power can work in -- in a recess. I think our office has opined the recess has to be longer than 3 days. And -- and so, it is potentially available to avert the future crisis that -- that could -- that could take place with respect to the board. If there are no other questions –

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS: Thank you, counsel.

http://campaign2012.washingtonexamin...illegal/292181

So which is the lie?

 

Harry Reid...Undisputed king of the hypocrites blocked Bush appointments yet says congress has no right to stop Obama using same tactics. Such liars!

http://thehill.com/blogs/on-the-mon...or-ignoring-pro-forma-sessions-he-once-pushed

 

Let's post it for all to see

"On the other side of the argument at that time was Reid, who began holding pro forma sessions in 2007 to block Bush nominees.

"I had to keep the Senate in pro-forma session to block the Bradbury appointment. That necessarily meant no recess appointments could be made," he said on the Senate floor in 2008, as Democrats blocked a potential recess appointment of Steven Bradbury to be the assistant attorney general for the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel in the Bush administration. "

 

He's the first president to do lots of things and none of them are good.

 

Exactly right Blues!!!

 

THEN-SEN. BARACK OBAMA (D-IL): Recess appointments ‘the wrong thing to do.’ “‘It’s the wrong thing to do. John Bolton is the wrong person for the job,’ said Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., a member of Foreign Relations Committee.” (“Officials: White House To Bypass Congress For Bolton Nomination,” The Associated Press, 7/30/05)


OBAMA: A recess appointee is ‘damaged goods… we will have less credibility.’ “To some degree, he’s damaged goods… somebody who couldn’t get through a nomination in the Senate. And I think that that means that we will have less credibility…” (“Bush Sends Bolton To U.N.” The State Journal-Register [Springfield, IL], 8/2/05)

Sen. Harry Reid was also disgusted by them:

SEN. HARRY REID (D-NV): ‘An end run around the Senate and the Constitution.’ “I will keep the Senate in pro forma session to block the President from doing an end run around the Senate and the Constitution with his controversial nominations.” (Sen. Reid, Congressional Record, S.15980, 12/19/07)

REID: ‘They are mischievous.’ “Also, understand this: We have had a difficult problem with the President now for some time. We don’t let him have recess appointments because they are mischievous, and unless we have an agreement before the recess, there will be no recess. We will meet every third day pro forma, as we have done during the last series of breaks.” (Sen. Reid, Congressional Record, S.7558, 7/28/0



REID: Recess appointments an ‘abuse of power.’ “

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2012/01/that-was-then-this-is-now.php

 

Except it's the ACLJ, not the ACLU. Learn the difference.

 

I think that was resolved way back.

 

It was resolved way back and is not the issue.

 

The original post has since been edited and the title changed, be an (*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*) to someone else next time, or simply learn the facts of the situation before spouting off.

 

There is "nothing written" because the idea of filing a lawsuit is ridiculous for something that the Republican party did with wild abandon!

Its just noise for the Fox-News-watching suckers who believe ANYTHING ridiculous from the Right Wing Noise Machine!

 

Bush's lawyers told him what he wanted to hear not what was legal.

 

Right vs left is not the issue. Any time a President steals more power it isnt a good thing.

 

Who are they?

 

Wow...one nomination. One little nomination. Any idea why Bradbury was blocked?

Constitutional violations and supporter of the illegal torture.

http://www.excellenceintransition.org/prune/prunedetail.cfm?ItemNumber=10822

It was on violations of our constitution. The republicans filibuster of Obama's appointments is to STOP any regulation against Wall Street and the banks and REFUSE any protection against fraud and deceit toward the American worker and family.

 

When is Holder going to go after Corzine? Or is the Obama admin only willing to talk about going after wall street corruption?

Talk is cheap. They can start with the former Goldman Sachs CEO.

 

It's the same control-freak pathology that causes the Democrats to think it their duty to take one person's property and hand it over to whoever THEY deem appropriate.

 

Ah, it's good to know even you see the dispicable, lawless nature of his actions.

 

Amen!
It's disgraceful and dangerous when a member of Congress like Pelosi, not only supports Obama's dismissal of Congress but says she's PROUD of it. This is not good, but I expect over the next several weeks and months Obama will be even more reckless in his quest to "fundementally" transform the USA. After all, he's openly declared (without a peep from the MSM) he won't wait and he refuses to take no for an answer.

 

"This is a usurpation of congressional authority, and a power grab by the administration that frankly, I don't think we've ever seen in our constitutional history. This was a very brazen and bold move by the president."

It is very clear that Obama truly believes he is above the law!



"I am above the law!"

 

The staff of The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. What; were you expecting me to post a roster?

 

Yeah, creating a new "bureau" of "bureaucrats". 700 and counting.
More faceless government workers eating up our hard earned paychecks.

Meanwile, in other news, Miltiary slashed to save money.