Obomination: Hypocrisy of Obama and His Party in the Senate

Last week, 34 Senators wrote a letter to Senator Harry Reid (D-NV), pointing out the Democrat’s hypocrisy with regard to the permissibility of presidential recess appointments during Senate pro forma sessions.   The letter charges Obama and the Democrats in the Senate with “undermin[ing] the constitutional authority of the Senate in order to serve a political objective.”

As previously discussed here and here on the Republican Lawyer Blog, Obama appointed Richard Cordray, Terrence Flynn, Sharon Block, and Richard Griffin during the Senate’s pro forma session – showing that Obama as President completely disregarded the Senate’s constitutional authority to advise and consent.

The letter from 35 Senators points out that Democrat Leader Harry Reid, who now has been defending Obama’s recess appointments, was in reality, “indisputably the author of what became the routine use pro forma sessions to prevent recess appointments.”  The letter declares asserts that Majority Leader Reid “believe[s] the importance of preserving Senate’s constitutional role in the nomination and appointment process varies depending on the political party of the President.”

Speaking on the Senate floor, Lamar Alexander declared Obama’s approach means that the Senate could recess for lunch and come back to find “the country has a new Supreme Court justice.”

The Senators are going to the judiciary with Obama’s breach of constitutional authority.  Senator Lamar Alexander (R-TN) said, “We will file amicus curiae briefs in all of the appropriate courts, and we will take this issue to the most important court in the land and that is the court of the American people on Election Day.”