Bush to Congress: Drop Dead
https://tinyurl.com/29qo9u
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Bush to Congress: Drop dead
Mother Jones
by Brian Beutler
06/19/07
Though they’ve been used by American presidents for about 200 years, signing statements — edicts issued by the president to declare his intent to construe a provision within a law differently than Congress does — are constitutionally questionable. But George W. Bush’s use of them far exceeds his predecessors’, and he has consistently used them to flout the will of the legislative branch. Though the GAO report makes no claims about the legitimacy of Bush’s statements or of the use of statements in general, it indicates that, in practice, the statements have the effect of nullifying the law in question in about 30 percent of cases...
https://www.motherjones.com/news/update/2007/06/bush_to_congress.html
Executive Orders
Liberty For All
by Jessi Winchester
Ever wonder why more and more prisons are being built but so many stand empty? Current presidential executive orders certainly make it clear. Under a ‘national emergency,’ these prisons would become concentration camps for American citizens run by F.E.M.A. [Federal Emergency Management Agency]. The FEMA website is quite candid about the fact that for the past 15 years presidential executive orders authorize the agency to exercise powers akin to Nazi Germany’s should a ‘national emergency’ be declared... (written 08/02; posted 06/19/07)
https://www.libertyforall.net/?p=715
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Federal+Emergency+Management+Agency
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=concentration+camps
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=executive+orders
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=signing+statements
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jessi+Winchester
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Brian+Beutler
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=impeach
https://omega.twoday.net/search?q=impeach
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Bush to Congress: Drop dead
Mother Jones
by Brian Beutler
06/19/07
Though they’ve been used by American presidents for about 200 years, signing statements — edicts issued by the president to declare his intent to construe a provision within a law differently than Congress does — are constitutionally questionable. But George W. Bush’s use of them far exceeds his predecessors’, and he has consistently used them to flout the will of the legislative branch. Though the GAO report makes no claims about the legitimacy of Bush’s statements or of the use of statements in general, it indicates that, in practice, the statements have the effect of nullifying the law in question in about 30 percent of cases...
https://www.motherjones.com/news/update/2007/06/bush_to_congress.html
Executive Orders
Liberty For All
by Jessi Winchester
Ever wonder why more and more prisons are being built but so many stand empty? Current presidential executive orders certainly make it clear. Under a ‘national emergency,’ these prisons would become concentration camps for American citizens run by F.E.M.A. [Federal Emergency Management Agency]. The FEMA website is quite candid about the fact that for the past 15 years presidential executive orders authorize the agency to exercise powers akin to Nazi Germany’s should a ‘national emergency’ be declared... (written 08/02; posted 06/19/07)
https://www.libertyforall.net/?p=715
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Federal+Emergency+Management+Agency
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=concentration+camps
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=executive+orders
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=signing+statements
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jessi+Winchester
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Brian+Beutler
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=impeach
https://omega.twoday.net/search?q=impeach
rudkla - 21. Mär, 18:31
