The Obama administration, facing a skeptical U.S. Supreme Court, on Monday defended the president’s power to make temporary appointments to key agency posts in a case involving the National Labor Relations Board.
In hourlong arguments in National Labor Relations Board v. SW General, the justices worked their way through sections and subsections of the Federal Vacancies Reform Act of 1998, which allows the president to fill a vacancy immediately with an acting officer in a post that ultimately requires presidential nomination and U.S. Senate confirmation.
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