Friday, June 27, 2014

Tipping Point: America’s Government is Now Broken

In case you haven’t been paying attention, two things happened this week that together demonstrate how profoundly broken democracy is in the U.S.
The Supreme Court ruled on Thursday, in NLRB v. Noel Canning, that President Obama violated the Constitution by appointing members to the National Labor Relations Board while the Senate was in a three-day recess. Obama was trying to provide the NLRB with enough members to actually do its job, against the wishes of Republicans in Congress, who would prefer the agency not exist at all and were effectively shutting it down by refusing to consider new nominees.

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