For Obama’s labor policy, no setback is permanent

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Less than two weeks after the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that two of his recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board were unconstitutional and their decisions therefore void, President Obama renominated one of those appointees, Sharon Block, back to the board.

The only reason why he didn’t renominate the other, Richard Griffin, was because he had already appointed him as NLRB chief counsel. Griffin is a former top lawyer for the International Union of Operating Engineers, while Block is a former Ted Kennedy staffer.

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