is, i know there s a dahlia column coming. it s my favorite thing about big decisions. sit there clicking refresh. the nlrb decision, unanimous decision, was this a surprise to you? yeah, if you had told me this morning at 8:00, chris, that we were going to get both canning the nlrb decision and the abortion buffer zone decision and they were going to be unanimous, both of them, i would have said you were drunk. not two decisions we thought were going to come down 9-0. a strange, strange today. today in my column, i coined the phrase faux-nanimous. of course, because these decisions have been made we had a unanimous decision yesterday as well. the decisions have been unanimous, but then they ve had concurrences that basically say, here s my real feeling about this whole thing. in the case of the appointments, i mean, what struck me as strange is you got your three branches. you got your white house, you got your congress, you got your supreme court. this seemed like one of those
today in my column, i coined the phrase faux-nanimous. of course, because these decisions have been made we had a unanimous decision yesterday as well. the decisions have been unanimous, but then they ve had concurrences that basically say, here s my real feeling about this whole thing. in the case of the appointments, i mean, what struck me as strange is you got your three branches. you got your white house, you got your congress, you got your supreme court. this seemed like one of those fights between the white house and congress that supreme court is very careful about stepping into and yet here they did, they just charged right in. right. not only did they charge in, but then they proceeded because there s no precedent, right? there s we don t have a heap of case law about the recess appointment power. and so then it really just turns into a fight about, you know, first of all, what the word happens means in the recess appointments clause, but also like an even crazier fi