[IP] more on President claims supreme power over laws, military -- 750 'signing statement'

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

Begin forwarded message:

From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
Date: May 10, 2006 4:44:08 PM EDT
To: dave@farber.net
Cc: "Atkinson, Robert" <rca53@columbia.edu>
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@farber.net>  
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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