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This is important, if they appeal to the supreme court and wait and see if they take, but even if they take it, wait for briefing ar arguments. what does it mean now, jay. are the decisions over the past year void? there have been important decisions from the nlrb last year? >> they're void. the three-judge panel at the u.s. court of appeals from the district of columbia said they were invalid from the outset and the decisions were not a quorum and those decisions from the nlrb, void, period. >> megyn: what does it mean for a practical matter, julian, for the companies out there and the unions...

A very snowy washington, d.c., martin. the basis for this ruling is essentially that the court is saying the senate was not in recess when this appointment was made. they are saying that, look, the senate was in a pro forma session, so not technically in recess. the obama administration is pushing back against that, and they are saying that they believe the senate was in recess. why? because they were in a pro forma session which essentially means that there weren't senators here, they weren't conducting official business, but they were gaveling into session every few days. this, of course, oc...

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Didn't get enough votes so you waited until you got out of town so he made an appointment and you were trying to make sure he didn't do that so you didn't go into a full recess but a pro forma session. is that how it works out? >> that is exactly correct. the senate and the house alone under the constitution had the prerogatives to make the rules under which they live including when and how we go into recess. >> greta: so what is going to happen from here? where does this go? >> i've been e-mailing with colleagues. i'm going to be talking to them tomorrow. i think there are two big categories ...

Your job and the president didn't get enough votes so you waited until you got out of town so he made an appointment and you were trying to make sure he didn't do that so you didn't go into a full recess but a pro forma session. is that how it works out? >> that is exactly correct. the senate and the house alone under the constitution had the prerogatives to make the rules under which they live including when and how we go into recess. >> greta: so what is going to happen from here? where does this go? >> i've been e-mailing with colleagues. i'm going to be talking to them tomorrow. i think th...