| Wednesdays with Audrey Hudson | 01.18.12 |  |
President Barack Obama's "recess" appointments are being challenged in court by small business advocates who argue the selections are illegal and therefore any decisions those individuals make on behalf of the federal government are invalid.
"These alleged recess appointments are a brazen circumvention of the Congressional appointment process and raise serious legal concerns that cannot be ignored," Karen Harned, executive director of National Federation of Independent Business's (NFIB) Small Business Legal Center, said in a statement.
The first legal challenge is filed in a federal district court in Washington and argues that Obama illegally bypassed the Senate on Jan. 4 when he made three appointments to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB).
The motion is part of a separate lawsuit filed by the NFIB and the National Right to Work Foundation against the labor agency hoping to block them from enforcing new rules requiring non-union work places to post notices on how to organize unions.
Click here to read more about the lawsuit, which follows on the heels of a Jan. 6 Justice Department decision stating the president could use his discretion to conclude "that the Senate is unavailable to perform its advise-and-consent function and to exercise his power to make recess appointments."
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