[IP] more on President claims supreme power over laws, military -- 750 'signing statement'
Begin forwarded message:
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: May 10, 2006 4:44:08 PM EDT
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
Cc: "Atkinson, Robert" <rca53@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [IP] President claims supreme power over laws, military
-- 750 'signing statement'
On Wed, 10 May 2006 16:26:36 -0400, David Farber <dave@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Checks and balances are alive and well. The Supreme Court--not the
President and not Congress--decides what is or is not Constitutional.
The case books are full of Court decisions which find that Congress
has
adopted un-Constitutional laws and the case books are equally full of
Court decisions finding that the Executive Branch has taken
administrative actions that are also found to be un-Constitutional.
Andrew Jackson once said, regarding a court ruling he didn't like, "John
Marshall has made his decision: now let him enforce it!"
I hope we have a better attitude today towards the rule of law.
--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
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