Posted on Friday, May 24, 2013 - 08:14 am:

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Another Appeals Court Rules Obama Recess Appointments Unconstitutional
By Ken Klukowski May 23, 2013

Breitbart News reported on Jan. 25 that the federal appeals court in Washington, D.C. declared President Barack 0bama’s recess appointments unconstitutional. Now another federal appeals court has done so as well, all but guaranteeing the Supreme Court will take up this issue in what could become a major defeat for the president.

...In Noel Canning v. NLRB, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit held these appointments were unconstitutional several months ago. Now in NLRB v. New Vista Nursing and Rehabilitation, LLC, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has done the same in a 2-1 decision.

...0bama’s appointments were therefore unconstitutional. As such, every order and decision issued by the NLRB over a period of more than a year would be invalid, carrying no force of law.

Breitbart News legal columnist Ken Klukowski is on faculty at Liberty University School of Law.

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Posted on Friday, May 24, 2013 - 11:42 am:

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Strassel: Conservatives Became Targets in 2008
The 0bama campaign played a big role in a liberal onslaught that far pre-dated Citizens United

By Kimberley A. Strassel, Wall Street Journal May 24, 2013

The White House insists President 0bama is "outraged" by the "inappropriate" targeting and harassment of conservative groups. If true, it's a remarkable turnaround for a man who helped pioneer those tactics.

...This history also casts light on White House claims that it was clueless about the IRS's targeting. As Huffington Post's Howard Fineman wrote this week: "With two winning presidential campaigns built on successful grassroots fundraising, with a former White House counsel (in 2010-11) who is one of the Democrats' leading experts on campaign law (Bob Bauer), with former top campaign officials having been ensconced as staffers in the White House . . . it's hard to imagine that the Obama inner circle was oblivious to the issue of what the IRS was doing in Cincinnati." More like inconceivable.

...If the country wants to get to the bottom of the IRS scandal, it must first remember the context for this abuse. That context leads to this White House.

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