This is of such significant importance that I have chosen to share my letter from Mark Mix.

Dear Dan,

“This is a constitutional crisis,” I argued on Fox News in one of many interviews I’ve conducted since Friday.

As you may have heard, your National Right to Work Foundation filed the first legal challenge to President Barack Obama’s purported “recess” appointments to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB).

This is just about as big as it gets for those of us dedicated to defending liberty.

You see, last week, lawyers for the NLRB notified the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia that Obama’s three “recess” appointees to the Board were now parties to the Foundation’s ongoing legal battle against another Obama Labor Board power grab.

Foundation attorneys seized upon the opportunity to defend the U.S. Constitution and our system of checks and balances.

Our Founding Fathers brilliantly devised a system that empowers Congress to hold the President accountable — a system President Obama has defiantly violated to pay back his Big Labor benefactors.

The “advice and consent clause” allows the Senate to ensure that Presidential appointments to powerful executive positions are qualified and not beholden to special interests like Big Labor.

The President may fill vacancies while Congress has recessed, but Obama’s latest move even runs afoul of the rule cited by an Obama Administration lawyer at the U.S. Supreme Court in 2010 — “the recess has to be longer than 3 days.”

The closer you look at Obama’s latest power grab, the more it stinks.

The White House never even submitted the proper paperwork to the Senate Labor Committee to let the Committee members conduct background checks and interview two of the nominees — including a lawyer for the International Union of Operating Engineers (IUOE).

This is indeed a constitutional crisis, and I’m proud to be a part of this vital fight to defend the Constitution.

But as with any crisis, the battle is going to expensive.

Our staff attorneys will need significant resources to conduct the legal research and file briefs necessary to defeat this unconstitutional power grab, as our public relations team continues to expose the Obama Administration’s outrageous move in the media.

So please, click here to make an emergency tax-deductible contribution of whatever you can afford right away.

You can bet the Obama Administration is going to defend this egregious abuse of authority with all they’ve got.

Our country’s constitutional balance is in jeopardy. Thank you for helping us fight back.

Sincerely,

Mark Mix

P.S. Your National Right to Work Foundation has filed the first legal challenge to President Barack Obama’s purported “recess” appointments to the NLRB.

Please make an emergency tax-deductible contribution of whatever you can afford to support the Foundation’s efforts to defend the U.S. Constitution from President Obama’s flagrant abuse of executive

On Wednesday, the Supreme Court of the United States handeddown one of the most important decisions on religious liberty in recent decades. For the first time, the Court held that there is indeed a ministerial exemption that allows churches and religious organizations to discriminate in ways that other employers cannot. The Court’s decision was unanimous, and the affirmation of religious liberty and the right of churches to hire religious teachers without state interference is fundamentally important.

The case emerged when a teacher in a Lutheran church school in Michigan was terminated by the church. She sued, and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) sided with her, bringing a suit against the church. The teacher was a “called teacher” in the church’s program, which meant that she had the responsibility to teach the church’s beliefs. The EEOC and lower courts had held that there is no ministerial exemption that would force the EEOC to drop the case. Writing for the Court, Chief Justice John Roberts rejected that logic, calling the view put forth by the EEOC and the Obama Administration “remarkable.”

The Chief Justice reviewed the history of religious liberty in the United States and England, noting that the founders of the United States wanted to ensure that the state could not interfere in the churches’ hiring of ministers. Pointing to the First Amendment of the U. S. Constitution, Roberts wrote: “The Establishment Clause prevents the government from appointing ministers, and the Free Exercise Clause prevents it from interfering with the freedom of religious groups to select their own.”

Directly rejecting the arguments of the EEOC and the findings of the lower court, the Chief Justice stated: “We cannot accept the remarkable view that the Religion Clauses have nothing to say about a religious organization’s freedom to select its own ministers.”

He also wrote: “The interest of society in the enforcement of employment discrimination statutes is undoubtedly important. But so, too, is the interest of religious groups in choosing who will preach their beliefs, teach their faith and carry out their mission.”

In a concurring opinion Justice Clarence Thomas argued that the Court should have gone further, granting to religious organizations the sole and final authority to determine who is and is not covered by the ministerial exemption. Justices Samuel Alito and Elena Kagan wrote a second concurring opinion, arguing that the issue of ordination should not be the determining issue, since ordination practices, titles and other designations of ministers differ by church, denomination, and religious group.

In his opinion, the Chief Justice also stated clearly that the EEOC has no right to declare that a church has wrongly terminated a minister. In his words, “it is precisely such a ruling that is barred by the ministerial exemption.”

By any measure, this is an important and vital decision. One way to consider its importance is to ponder what the opposite finding would have meant. In this case, this would mean that there is no ministerial exemption, and that churches, church schools, Christian colleges and seminaries, and any number of church-based employers, would be forbidden to hire and fire on theological and doctrinal grounds.

In other words, the government would be able to direct and limit  churches and church schools in matters of hiring those with teaching and ministerial responsibility.

This would mean, effectively, the end of religious liberty. Thankfully, the Court preserved religious liberty, and did so in an opinion that is clear in its findings and declarations. Add to this the fact that the decision was unanimous — and be thankful.

The entire Opinion of the Court in the case Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, along with Concurring Opinions and the Syllabus, are available here.

Mark Mix, of The National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation has sent me a letter that every American should received and read. I share it with you.

“I refuse to take ‘No’ for an answer,” President Obama fumed this week.

He may as well have added, “Even when the answer is in the U.S. Constitution.”

This week, President Obama named three recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) — in clear, unprecedented defiance of Congress and the Constitution.

As you know, in the last two years the Obama Labor Board has repeatedly enacted one power grab after another on behalf of union bosses, to the detriment of the rights of individual employees — especially those who wish to refrain from union activities.

Union bosses know their coercive agenda is overwhelmingly unpopular with the American people, which is why they’ve turned to unelected administrative agencies like the NLRB to push through much of what they cannot get through Congress.

With the presidential election less than a year away, Obama is desperate to ram through more sweetheart deals for Big Labor.

But this latest power grab is especially dangerous.

You see, Article II of the U.S. Constitution requires the President to obtain the advice and consent of the U.S. Senate for appointments to the most powerful positions in the executive branch.

This crucial component of our system of checks and balances helps Congress hold the President accountable.

The advice and consent clause allows the Senate to ensure that Presidential appointments to powerful executive positions are qualified and not beholden to special interests like Big Labor.

The out-of-control Obama Labor Board shows why these checks and balances are so vital.

The President may fill vacancies while Congress has recessed, but Obama’s latest move even runs afoul of the rule cited by an Obama Administration lawyer at the U.S. Supreme Court in 2010 — “the recess has to be longer than 3 days.”

That’s why National Right to Work Foundation staff attorneys are exploring possible legal challenges to these unprecedented recess appointments.

With such a flagrant abuse of power by the Obama Administration, I’m grateful for the continued generosity of Right to Work supporters like you who enable us to fight back in the courts and in the media.

For decades Congress has abandoned much of its constitutional authority and handed it over to an ever-growing executive branch.

Now President Obama has defiantly bypassed Congress, the Constitution, and the American people.

Sincerely,

Mark Mix

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