美国有线新闻 CNN 2014-01-20（在线收听）

 A rare inner section three branches of the US government, this doesn't happen every day. At the center of this story, three job appointments made by president Obama, you know from civics, certain government job the president can not simply appoint whoever he wants, he nominates people for them. And the senate gives the president advice and consent by deciding whether to approve his nominations. The founding father wanna to keep any one branch government from having too much power over the others, which known as checks and balances. But if what the senate not in session in the jobs or field, while the president can make recess appointment temporarily fill in the jobs until the end of the following year unless the senate decide to approve them for longer. While over the senate holiday break, 2011 to 2012, president Obama appointed three people to the national labor relation board without sending approval. The president stands these were recess appointment he can make temporarily without advice and consent as some of his predecessors have done, but the senate was not technically in recess, it was in pro forma what that means it wasn't passing laws or conducting official business, but it was technically in session formally convening and immediately *, some senators set this up to prevent president Obama from making recess appointment, now for the third branch, * one. Yesterday the supreme court to face up, it could decide whether the president  Obama's appointment were appropriate or if violate the constitutional principle of advising consent, it really comes down how the high court  define the senate recess.