At the end of February, three dozen Teamsters Union members working at Noel Canning, a Pepsi distributor in Yakima, Wash., ended a week-long strike as the company finally agreed to resolve charges of unfair labor practices going all the way back to 2010.

But this was not your garden-variety labor dispute. This one became an occasion for the Obama administration to create a minor constitutional crisis that went all the way to the Supreme Court. And in ruling against Barack Obama, the justices unanimously upheld congressional powers against a flagrant executive overreach that typified Obama’s approach to executive power.