In a column posted last night (see the link below) and appearing in print this morning, Washington Examiner senior editorial writer Sean Higgins predicts that today the U.S. Senate’s HELP Committee will rubber-stamp Big Labor President Barack Obama’s slate of…
Late last week the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit became the second federal appeals court to rule that President Barack Obama had exceeded his constitutional authority in order to install pro-forced unionism radicals on the powerful, five-member…
President Obama’s recess appointments have been ruled unconstitutional once again by a second court, but that does not seem to phase the NLRB, which takes its orders from Big Labor bosses. Tal Kopan has the story in Politico. The issue has far-reaching implications for…
At first, pro-forced unionism President Barack Obama and his handpicked National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) chairman, Mark Pearce, sought basically to ignore a ruling this January 25 by a three-judge panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C.
The House of Representatives passed a bill to prevent the National Labor Relations Board from conducting much of its business until a dispute over the president’s recess appointments is resolved. The measure, approved on a 219-209 vote that broke largely…
A hearing worth watching. The U.S. House of Representative’s Education and Workforce hearing room was the scene of the decimation Obama’s argument for making unconstitutional National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) appointments and the complete discrediting of the…
"There is no legitimate purpose of labor law served by making a criminal who maliciously discloses someone's name and social security number together to intimidate that person into joining or not joining a union liable to only a wrist slap at most. Especially when a perpetrator of the same offense with any other motive faces a multi-thousand-dollar fine for every count. "The court ruling that ITPA violations by union bosses are preempted by the NLRA is, therefore, preposterous. "But ID theft need not become yet another, to borrow the words of eminent 20th Century American legal scholar Roscoe Pound, 'wrong' labor unions and their officials may 'commit to person and property . . . with impunity.' "In an essay penned back in 1958, this former Harvard School of law dean observed that labor union officials 'now stand where the king . . . stood at common law.' "Over the past five-and-a-half decades, Big Labor has acquired even more legal immunities. But Fisher could prove to be a great opportunity to begin rolling back court-created union special privileges."
Forty US Senators, led by Sen. Orrin Hatch, are demanding that members of the National Labor Relations Board step aside until valid and legal appointments can be made. The letter to Sharon Block and Richard F. Griffin, Jr., the two…
The Washington Times takes the president and the NLRB to task for ignoring a recent appeals court decision invalidating the president's appointments to the board: When the Constitution puts a limitation on executive authority, the president can’t just ignore it for the sake of convenience. That message was delivered forcefully on Friday in a decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. A unanimous three-judge panel declared unlawful President Obama’s installation of three appointees to the National Labor Relations Board while the Senate was in session. The president is compounding his disregard for the Constitution by thumbing his nose at this well-reasoned decision. The nation’s founding document grants the president authority to “fill up all Vacancies that may happen during the Recess of the Senate.” The appellate panel’s ruling points out the use of “the Recess” as opposed to “a recess” or “an adjournment” was not accidental. The term refers to the long break between congressional sessions in which it makes sense for the president to make an interim appointment because the Senate is not available to provide its advice and consent. In his ruling, Chief Judge David B. Sentelle refused to accept novel interpretations meant to expand the appointment authority, saying, “We will not do violence to the Constitution by ignoring the Framers’ choice of words.” Desperate to stack the National Labor Relations Board with Big Labor cronies, the White House refused to allow an old piece of parchment get in the way. On Jan. 4, 2012, Mr. Obama made the appointments even though the Senate was conducting “pro forma” business and the House of Representatives purposely chose to remain in session to thwart the potential recess appointments. Administration lawyers argued before the court that the president, not Congress, had the ultimate power to decide when the Congress was in session. Under this interpretation, Senate participation in the nomination process would be converted from a check and balance on the executive to an empty formality.