A key argument used by Senate Democrats defending the National Labor Relations Board during a hearing this morning was that while an appeals court had ruled in January that two of President Obama’s recess appointees to the board were unconstitutional, other courts had not. Therefore, the NLRB was right to ignore the ruling at least until the Supreme Court could decide the matter.

Well, that changed Thursday, Politico reports:

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