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**layevymed** · 04-17-2011, 09:36 PM

I don't like presidential signing statements. Either the president should sign the bill or veto it, but signing statements are like having your cake and eating it too.
Does anyone know if the practice has been challenged in the courts? It's hard for me to believe that the SC would approve of it.

They've never gotten to any meaningful judicial review to my knowledge and certainly not SCOTUS review like the line item veto did. I feel likewise...the federal executive is only empowered to sign, veto or take no action with a bill where it either becomes law or expires depending on timing issues. That's it. The executive has a limited set of powers and what's given is all they have. Expressio unius est exclusio alterius ("the express mention of one thing excludes all others").

04-17-2011, 09:36 PM	#14
layevymed Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 503 Senior Member	I don't like presidential signing statements. Either the president should sign the bill or veto it, but signing statements are like having your cake and eating it too. Does anyone know if the practice has been challenged in the courts? It's hard for me to believe that the SC would approve of it. They've never gotten to any meaningful judicial review to my knowledge and certainly not SCOTUS review like the line item veto did. I feel likewise...the federal executive is only empowered to sign, veto or take no action with a bill where it either becomes law or expires depending on timing issues. That's it. The executive has a limited set of powers and what's given is all they have. Expressio unius est exclusio alterius ("the express mention of one thing excludes all others").
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