Obama Administration Asks High Court to Back Labor Picks
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President Barack Obama’s lawyers asked the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold three appointments he made to a federal labor board without Senate confirmation, in a separation-of-powers appeal with implications for a number of regulations.
The appeal, filed today in Washington, contends that Obama made the appointments to the National Labor Relations Board while the Senate was in recess, as the Constitution permits. A federal appeals court said the president’s recess-appointment power applies only at end of Congress’s two-year sessions.