a second ruling by the supreme court on thursday sent a clear message that president obama's powers are limited. the court unanimously ruled that the president violated the constitution in 2012 by making recess appointments to the national labor relations board while the senate was on a brief break. in its opinion, which was written by justice stephen buyer, that the senate was in a three-day recess. three days is too short a time to bring a recess within the scope of the clause thus we concluded the president lacked the power to make the recess appointments here at issue. though the court put limits 0 on the president's recess appointment powers in the short term they left open the possibility to be made during breaks of ten days or more. so ten days is a recess. three days is not. you wrote about this back when the appointments were made and said, hey, just write a letter. it will solve it. tell me about that solution that