Quick diary. The Supreme Court released Noel Canning this morning. In a 5-4 decision the liberal wing largely upheld recess appointments, but said that 3 days was too short of a recess so ruled the appointments in question invalid. Pretty much the reasoning seemed to be presidents have been doing this for 150 years and no one objected til now so it must be ok. Scalia wrote a vigorous dissent[technically a concurrence since the actual judgement was unanimous] that would have done away with all recess appointments except perhaps for those in the 12 hours between sessions at the beginning of January.
The Court also unanimously struck down Massachusett's abortion clinic buffer zone in a narrow ruling, but still left the door open to some regulation of access to abortion clinics. More info at scotusblog.
7:44 AM PT: Hobby Lobby and Harris (public employee unions) will be released at 10am next Monday.