The Supreme Court today gave a stinging defeat to President Barack Obama in National Labor Relations Board v. Noel Canning, holding that the president did not have any power to make recess appointments during the three-day break between pro forma sessions of the Senate.  The decision depended on a close textual reading of the basic provision, … Continue reading Symposium: Custom and textual meaning – Chevron deference should not be allowed to manufacture constitutional ambiguity