Vitter votes against cloture to protest Obama's 'war on the Constitution'
by Jonathan Tilove - Times-Picayune (excerpt)

WASHINGTON -- Sen. David Vitter, R-La., was one of five senators to vote against considering the nomination of a Cuban-born jurist warmly backed by Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., for a seat on the federal court. Vitter and the other four Republicans used their vote Monday against invoking cloture in the debate over the nomination of Adalberto Jose Jordan to be a judge for the 11th Circuit to protest what that they say is President Barack Obama's unconstitutional misuse of recess appointments, particularly in the naming of Richard Cordray to be director of the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in January. "Sen. Vitter is voting this way on the circuit court nominees to protest the president's recent, completely unconstitutional so-called recess appointments," Vitter spokesman Luke Bolar said. "Those are the latest examples of Obama's enormous overreaching -- his war on the Constitution."