By Willie Deutsch In the Senate Republicans capitulation on stopping Obama’s radical nominees, their consolation prize was that Obama would withdraw his nomination of Richard Griffin and Sharon Block to the NLRB.  While Obama took advantage of this by nominating two equally radical nominees , their is a further irony. It […]

Lachlan Markay has the story : A recent lawsuit filed in a federal court in California alleges that National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) member Richard Griffin was complicit in a scheme to cover up embezzlement at a major labor union by terminating employees who attempted to expose the effort. The allegations […]

Obama violated the Constitutional provisions requiring that the Senate confirm nominees so these two can be on the National Labor Relations Board. Americans for Limited Government has issued this report so you know who the people are, who Obama broke the Constitution to appoint. Sharon Block Richard Griffin Nominee Alert HighRes 12.30 (function() […]

By Rick Manning The Obama Administration and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid pulled the wool over the eyes of naïve Senate Republicans in agreeing to pull back two objectionable appointees to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) in exchange for the dropping of any filibuster threat against […]

By Rick Manning — Richard Griffin, Jr. has had a rough 2012, and 2013 doesn’t look much better. For Griffin, 2012 started brightly as he was given a recess appointment to the National Labor Relations Board and was sworn in as a Board Member on January 9, […]

By Robert Romano and Rick Manning   — Americans for Limited Government released this morning an Amicus Curiae brief by the late Senator Ted Kennedy from 2004 where he argued against the validity of the appointment of Judge William H. Pryor, Jr. to the federal bench in a recess appointment. The discovery of the Kennedy legal brief is particularly significant […]

By Robert Romano — While Barack Obama’s “recess” appointment on Jan. 4 of Richard Cordray to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau when Congress was not even in recess has garnered most of the media’s attention, there were three other picks for the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) […]

To receive the Must Reads in your inbox,  click here ! Good Thursday morning, Here are the  Must Reads according to  Adam Bitely : Obama’s radical non-recess ‘recess’ appointments Even the left questions the constitutionality of the appointments… Czar Barack Cartoon: Obama’s New Year’s Resolution Who are Sharon Block and Richard Griffin? Can Santorum knock off Romney for the GOP nomination? Rove: After Iowa, Romney is the heavy favorite GOP elites reveling in Romney’s inevitability… Why won’t Romney embrace Reaganomics? Santorum appears to be a conservative technocrat Why Ron Paul matters Search warrant issued, charges on horizon in SEIU voter fraud case in Florida… The curious candidacy of Elizabeth Warren

By Bill Wilson — There’s a first time for everything. On Jan. 4, Barack Obama made four recess appointments: Richard Cordray to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and Sharon Block, Terence Flynn, and Richard Griffin to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). In itself, that’s not unusual.  […]

DEVELOPING… Barack Obama made more controversial, and possibly unconstitutional recess appointments Wednesday afternoon. After appointing Richard Cordray as the head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau this morning , Obama decided it was time to fill three open seats on the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). The new NLRB appointees are Sharon Block, Terence F. Flynn, and Richard Griffin.