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The Donnybrook
Tuesday, July 25, 2006
 
Arlen Specter May Sue President Bush Over Signing Statements...

Feel free to start the countdown clock for the amount of time it takes Specter to back down and fall back in line.
A powerful Republican committee chairman who has led the fight against President Bush’s signing statements said Monday he would have a bill ready by the end of the week allowing Congress to sue him in federal court.

“We will submit legislation to the United States Senate which will...authorize the Congress to undertake judicial review of those signing statements with the view to having the president’s acts declared unconstitutional,” Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter, R-Pa., said on the Senate floor.

Specter’s announcement came the same day that an American Bar Association task force concluded that by attaching conditions to legislation, the president has sidestepped his constitutional duty to either sign a bill, veto it, or take no action.
I'd like to think that Specter is serious about reigning in President Bush's abuses of power, but his record up to now has been spotty at best...



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