Lawsuit Challenges Obama Recess Appointments
by Justin Shubow
Posted January 17, 2012, 7:16 PM
SCOTUSblog reports on the first lawsuit opposing President Obama's recess appointments:
A group of business organizations and individual firms on Friday began the first challenge to President Obama’s new government appointments while the Senate is out of town, using a case involving the National Labor Relations Board to test the issue. In a motion filed in U.S. District Court in Washington, along with a legal memorandum, the challengers argued that the NLRB has no power to go ahead with a pending rule on workers’ rights because the three new appointees were not legally named, so the Board has no operating quorum.