Specter Prepping Bill to Sue Bush

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

No idea where to send this, so it lands here. :-)

Via The Boston Globe (AP).

[snip]

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.

Bush has issued at least 750 signing statements during his presidency,
reserving the right to revise, interpret or disregard laws on national
security and constitutional grounds.

[snip]

More:
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2006/07/24/specter_prepping_bill_to_sue_bush/

- ferg


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