Obama’s payback to labor thwarted by DC court
9:25 AM 01/28/2013
If President Obama wants to remake our nation’s labor laws, he will have to do it the old-fashioned way: through the legislative branch. On Friday, a three-judge panel of the District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals struck down as unconstitutional several recess appointments made by the president over the past year, including those of three members of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). It leaves the NLRB with only one member --- not enough to function under the law --- and throws into question hundreds of decisions issued over the past year.
