Another day — another judicial rebuke of President Obama, this time centering on his unilateral extension of overtime eligibility to millions of salaried managers.

Businesses have been scrambling to prepare for the new rule that makes employees who earn up to $47,476 a year eligible for time-and-a-half pay after working 40 hours. They adjusted schedules, job duties and in some cases salaries after the Department of Labor issued the final rule last spring, which was to take effect Dec. 1.

But a coalition of states and business groups challenged the new rule, and a federal judge in Texas last week granted an injunction that halts implementation nationwide.

Judge Amos Mazzant said the final rule issued by the Department of Labor “exceeds its delegated authority and ignores Congress’s intent.”

A familiar sentiment at this point in the Obama presidency.

While Congress established in statute the type of employees who are exempt from the overtime requirements, it did not use minimum salary as the only standard to determine eligibility. But with the new rule, the judge said the Department of Labor effectively did so, decreeing that managers who earn less than $913 a week ($47,476 a year) must be eligible for OT.

“If Congress intended the salary requirement to supplant the duties test, then Congress, and not the Department, should make that change,” Mazzant wrote.

The decision now leaves thousands of businesses and employees in limbo. Just as transgender students who were promised access to the bathroom of their choice at their public school were left in limbo, after Obama’s order on that issue was overruled by another federal judge.

And just as undocumented immigrants who were told they could avoid deportation and work legally found they were left in limbo after the U.S. Supreme Court overruled his immigration reform plan.

That’s just this year.

In the eighth year of his presidency, Obama should understand the chaos that results when he promises things he isn’t constitutionally empowered to deliver.