McConnell Welcomes Supreme Court Decision to Rule on President’s Unconstitutional NLRB ‘Recess’ Appointments
June 24, 2013
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell issued the following statement regarding the Supreme Court’s decision to rule on a lower court decision that President Obama’s so-called “recess” appointments to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) last year are unconstitutional:
“I welcome the Supreme Court’s decision today to hear arguments on the President’s unconstitutional ‘recess’ appointments to the National Labor Relations Board. Last year, the President made an unprecedented power grab by placing political allies at a powerful federal agency without even trying to obtain the Senate’s advice and consent. A federal appeals court earlier this year reaffirmed what Republicans and job creators around the country have been saying: the President’s attempt to circumvent the Senate with a supposed ‘recess appointment’ to the NLRB was unconstitutional. It will now be up to the Supreme Court to decide whether the President violated the Constitution, as the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit found.”
McConnell and his Senate colleagues filed amicus briefs in both the D.C. Circuit Court and the Supreme Court.