Turns out, my point stands

Posted on: November 19, 2024 at 21:29:47 CT

Finally, in January 2012, an increasingly frustrated Obama took action. He declared that, regardless of the pro forma sessions, he considered the Senate to actually be in recess — and therefore that could appoint those four nominees unilaterally. "Gimmicks do not override the President's constitutional authority to make appointments to keep the government running," White House Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer wrote. But conservatives called these actions blatantly unconstitutional, and even some liberals agreed. Soon enough, a lawsuit was filed calling an NLRB decision illegitimate because it was handed down by those nominees.


He was making recess appointments even when he couldn't b/c of the Pro Forma sessions, which is exactly the same thing this senate is talking about doing to keep Trump from doing the same thing. Again, I don't recall anyone on the Prog side calling out Obama for making recess appointments, which is the point.