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Article: Presidential signing statements.(COMMENTARY)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- August 6, 2006
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Byline: Robert F. Turner, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Tomorrow or Tuesday, the American Bar Association House of Delegates, meeting in Honolulu, is likely to approve a unanimous report and resolution by a task force declaring it is "contrary to the rule of law and our constitutional system of separation of powers" for the president to claim authority to disregard, or to decline to enforce, all or part of a law he has signed, or to interpret that law in a manner inconsistent with the intent of Congress, because he believes it to be unconstitutional. According to the task force, the president has but two options: he may veto the entire bill, or enforce it in ...