On Tuesday April 17, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) announced that he and other Senate Republicans intend to file a brief amicus curiae in a case challenging the validity of President Obama’s January 4 recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board. The case, Noel Canning v. NLRB, challenges an NLRB cease and desist
Recess Appointments Clause
Talk of recess appointment for Cordray
By Keith R. Fisher on
According to an article appearing last week in The Hill, consumer groups are urging President Obama to end-run the Senate’s failure to confirm his nominee for Director of the CFPB, Richard Cordray, by using the presidential recess appointment power. The exercise of such a power has been made problematic by the use of “pro…