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Home. they re challenging that forced unionization. and there s another case that involves buffer zones around abortion clinics in massachusetts where pro-life folks are not allowed to speak out, demonstrate or try to talk to anyone. so we ll see if we get those as well. martha: we could get none of them, all of them reporter: i m watching, yeah. martha: we ll see if somebody comes running down reporter: here we go. not sure what it is, but we ll get back to you. martha: all right, shannon, let us know. bill: major developments in the irs targeting scandal as new e-mails released to congressional investigators show that lois lerner floated the idea of examining chuck grassley about two years ago. south dakota senator john thune weighed in on that with greta. listen. this should outrage not only republicans, but democrats. and as you just mentioned, this latest example of targeting senator grassley, whose ....
By law if these employers provide insurance to its employees and hobby lobby says it s what they want to do if they do, though, they have to make sure they have cost-free access to 20 different methods of contraception. hobby lobby objects to four of them they believe can cause abortions. so a big challenge to a key portion in the health care law. the second big case is a challenge to the president s use of executive power. he appointed three members to the national labor relations board at a time that the senate says it was in recess, during one of those gaveling in every two or three days. lower court found the president overstepped his executive power by making those appointments, so we ll see what the court says. martha: two sort oflesser known cases but important ones as well, we may get those as well. yeah. there s a case out of illinois that involves people who act has home health care workers, and in particular there s a woman who wanted to call for her diss abled son d ....
Get run over here. bill: we ve got some breaking news, but put a fine point on this, okay? americans are just catching up with this story right now, but they would be caught up if more people talked about it and reported on it. you look at the major newspapers, new york times, washington post, l.a. times, a couple of print stories throughout the week, i mean, that s got to change, and we ll see if it does. martha s got breaking news now. martha: back to the supreme court we do because there has been another big ruling that has just come down, and it has to do with abortion clinic buffer zones. it s a case that was brought by massachusetts, and they have made a decision on it. shannon bream joins us with the details at the supreme court. hey, shannon. reporter: martha, and it s a unanimous opinion basically striking down these buffer zones that created a 35-foot buffer around any abortion clinics in massachusetts. basically, the court said through some fractured opinions but all votin ....
Bill: so as we mentioned, the supreme court ruling moments ago, the recess appointments made by president obama to the national labor relations board without senate confirmation were illegal. here now with more, jay sekulow, chief counsel for the american center for law and justice. fortuitous to have you here, because you were a part of this now. what does ruling mean, jay? well, what it says is that in this particular case the appointments by the president, the so-called recess appointments to the nlrb, national labor relations board, were not valid because the house and senate they were in recess and, therefore, the senate was in recess and that the house, basically, has the calendar control. and that was a key thing that we argued, by the way, representing the speaker of the house, john boehner, in the case. so the appointments bill that were made during this period by those three nlrb so-called recess appointments, the decisions made by the national labor relations board durin ....
We might bring you back. yes, sir. martha: looks like there will be. one decision is already in, and shannon bream has been going through it. it has to do with whether or not the president can make recess appointments as he did to the national labor relations board. the senate objected to those recess appointments that he made because they said they weren t really in recess when he made them, so what has the supreme court decided? reporter: here s how it works. the court goes through a long analysis, basically recognizing that the president does have power to make recess appointments. l but in this particular case, this is a unanimous opinion, they said the three-day window that the senate was operating on where they gaveled in and gaveled out was too short. so while recognizing a lot of constitutional power for the president to make recess appointments, in this case not so. under the standard set forth here, the senate was in session at these pro forma session. rules made clear th ....