Legal Times - Hill Republicans Join Suit Challenging Obama Recess Appointments

September 28, 2012

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By Todd Ruger, LegalTimes.com

Congressional Republicans have joined in a lawsuit challenging President Barack Obama's recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board in January, a legal fight focused on the constitutional limits of presidential appointment power.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and 41 other Republican senators filed an amicus brief Wednesday in the case of Noel Canning, a company challenging whether the appointments were unconstitutional. . .

House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) also filed an amicus brief on Wednesday, prepared by Jay Sekulow, chief counsel for the American Center for Law and Justice.

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