'Someone Finally Said No' To Obama

Conservatives rejoice as Supreme Court partially reigns in president

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GARTH KANT

Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, explained why Supreme Court ruling on Obama is so important

WASHINGTON – With the Supreme Court delivering a unanimous blow to an case of what critics call President Obama’s executive power overreach, one might expect nearly all conservatives to praise the ruling immediately.

But that didn’t happen because the unanimous decision, curiously, was also a split decision.

The high court decided that the president went too far in making recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board, or NLRB, while Congress was still in session on Jan. 3, 2012, but the panel’s four conservative justices issued a concurring opinion that the majority opinion did not go far enough.

That unanimous, but split, decision caused some lawmakers to hesitate before commenting, while they studied the ruling.

One of those not hesitating for a moment was constitutional law expert Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, who, in an exclusive interview with WND, called Thursday’s ruling “fantastic.”

“I am thrilled that all nine members of the Supreme Court, including those appointed by this president, agreed that the president acted unconstitutionally, in this case.”

The senator noted that, although past presidents have made recess appointments, the appointments Obama attempted to make were different.

Lee maintained the president attempted to change the Senate’s rules and define for himself when that body is in session and when it is in recess.

The senator noted the Supreme Court unanimously agreed that the Senate clearly was not in recess, according to its own rules, when the president made recess appointments to the NLRB.

Lee called it a reminder that “ours is not a government of one,” and a “a wake up call for all of us that we’ve got an executive branch that is rather openly flouting the Constitution, and it needs to stop.”

“When the president made these unconstitutional recess appointments, he took something that wasn’t his,” he said. “It’s a power that doesn’t belong to him. It belongs to someone else. It belongs to three million Americans who have the right to have their elected senators exercise the confirmation power of the Senate.”

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