OBAMA RECESS GAMBLE FAILS

POLITICO’s Josh Gerstein: “Obama’s big gamble on recess appointments was smacked down unanimously by the Supreme Court … an embarrassing setback for the administration just as Republicans are turning up the heat on alleged overreaches by the chief executive. The justices all agreed that Obama took executive power too far by naming three nominees to a key labor panel during a three-day Senate recess in 2012. GOP lawmakers are already seizing on the decision as more proof of claims they make in a lawsuit House Speaker John Boehner just announced plans to file: that this is a president gone rogue.

“So while the White House braces for a new legal showdown with Congress over policies ranging from health care to immigration, they’re heading in with one loss already under their belt and Republicans feeling emboldened. ‘It represents a clear — clear rebuke to the president’s brazen power grab,’ Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said on the Senate floor. ‘It was a unanimous — unanimous — rebuke of the president of the United States. … The administration’s tendency to abide only by the laws it likes represents a disturbing and dangerous threat to the rule of law.”

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