Posted on Jun 26, 2014
High Court Rebukes President Obama on Recess Appointments
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The Supreme Court on Thursday limited the president's power to fill high-level vacancies with temporary appointments, ruling in favor of Senate Republicans in their partisan clash with President Barack Obama.
What do you think of the crushing blow?
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What do you think of the crushing blow?
http://www.aol.com/article/2014/06/26/high-court-limits-presidents-appointments-power/20920503/?icid=maing-grid7%7Cmain5%7Cdl8%7Csec1_lnk3%26pLid%3D493803
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Do not thinking it was limiting the President's power, but rather telling him that he overstepped the powers as outlined in the Constitution as based on their interpretations. It was not a close vote either as all said it was unconstitutional of what he did.....
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The Supreme Court didn't side with house Republicans, they sided with the Constitution. Nice to see for a change. And it was unanimous, that doesn't happen often.
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COL Vincent Stoneking
SPC Moniz,
I don't read the decisions anymore (yes, there was a time when I would wade through the decisions, concurrences, and dissents for cases I felt were important), but it does appear that SCOTUS seems to have caught the constitution bug base on the reporting of decisions from this session. It gives me a faint glimmer of hope.
Which likely means there is an oncoming train in the tunnel.
I don't read the decisions anymore (yes, there was a time when I would wade through the decisions, concurrences, and dissents for cases I felt were important), but it does appear that SCOTUS seems to have caught the constitution bug base on the reporting of decisions from this session. It gives me a faint glimmer of hope.
Which likely means there is an oncoming train in the tunnel.
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SFC(P) (Join to see)
LTC Stoneking,
Sir, it would be nice if this is a trend SCOTUS is moving towards, but I fear you are correct about the oncoming train.
Sir, it would be nice if this is a trend SCOTUS is moving towards, but I fear you are correct about the oncoming train.
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So this is where I'm going to sound like a righty and confuse the hell out of a lot of you - I think this is/was the right decision. Obama (and presidents in general) have been consistently over reaching in their authority. This dates back for years and Obama isn't the first, but congress needs to stand up to the executive branch. That the dems in the senate are not standing up to Obama will have massive repercussions once there's a republican president and they no longer agree with the positions.
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SSG (Join to see)
Sir, I'm glad we can agree on something but I disagree in your use of the term "righty". This is about doing the correct thing to do (sorry, just don't seem proper to use the word "right") not just a right/left thing. You are correct that many Presidents have overstepped their bounds of authority regardless of the letter behind their name.
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MAJ (Join to see)
SSG Redondo - you are 100% correct. The executive branch for decades now has been operating outside of constitutional mandate. My comment about looking like a "righty" was sarcastic. Many here (including yourself) view me as a "lefty". Just making the point that my politics are all over the place.
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MSG Wade Huffman
Maj Dews, I appreciate your candor here. If any one of us were to be completely honest with ourselves we would all find that each of us are a bit bi-polar politically. I find it very hard to believe that anyone completely supports EVERYTHING that one party or another associates themselves with. ISSUES should be decided on facts and laws established (such as this one). As far as elections go, we are, in most cases, relegated to choosing what we believe to be the lesser of the evils.
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