Signing statements: What to do?

Forum

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2006, Pages

  Fisher, Louis ^a  

^a LIBRARY OF CONGRESS   (United States)

Author keywords

Presidency; Separation of powers; Signing statements

Indexed keywords

EID: 33751064344     PISSN: 15408884     EISSN: 15408884     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1540-8884.1130     Document Type: Article

References (34)

1. See Elizabeth Bumiller, "For President, Final Say on a Bill Sometimes Comes After the Signing," New York Times, January 16, 2006, at A11.
2. Phillip J. Cooper, "George W. Bush, Edgar Allan Poe, and the Use and Abuse of Presidential Signing Statements," 35 Pres. Stud. Q. 515 (2005).
3. Linda Greenhouse, "In Signing Bills, Reagan Tries to Write History," New York Times, December 9, 1986, at B14;
4. Marc N. Garber and Kurt A. Wimmer, "President's Statements At Signing No Help to U.S. Judges," National Law Journal, September 8, 1986, at 15;
5. Douglas W. Kmiec, "Judges Should Pay Attention to Statements by President," National Law Journal, November 10, 1986, at 13;
6. Marc N. Garber and Kurt A. Wimmer, "Presidential Signing Statements as Interpretations of Legislative Intent: An Executive Aggrandizement of Power," 24 Harv. J. Legis. 363 (1987);
7. Brad Waites, "Let Me Tell You What You Mean: An Analysis of Presidential Signing Statements," 21 Ga. L. Rev. 755 (1987);
8. Frank B. Cross, "The Constitutional Legitimacy and Significance of Presidential 'Signing Statements,'" 40 Adm. L. Rev. 209 (1988)
9. Samuel A. Alito, Jr., Office of Legal Counsel, U.S. Department of Justice, "Using Presidential Signing Statements to Make Fuller Use of the President's Constitutionally Assigned Role in the Process of Enacting Law," February 5, 1986, at 1.
10. Id. at 2.
11. 17 Ops. O.L.C. 131, 131 (1993). Also available at http://www.usdoj.gov/ olc/signing.htm
12. Id. at 133-34.
13. Id. at 134.
14. Id. at 135.
15. 18 Ops. O.L.C. 199, 199 (1994).
16. Id. at 200.
17. The Constitution Project, "Statement on Presidential Signing Statements by the Coalition to Defend Checks and Balances," June 27, 2006, at 1.
18. Id. at 2.
19. http://judiciary.senate.gov/print_testimony.cfm?id=1969&wit_id=5479, at 1.
20. Id. at 2, citing "The Legal Significance of Presidential Signing Statements," 17 Op. O.L.C. 131, 131 (1993).
21. Id., citing 17 Op. O.L.C. at 132.
22. Id. at 5.
23. Id. at 3.
24. United States v. Butler, 297 U.S. 1, 62 (1936).
25. Id. at 7.
26. National Treasury Employees Union v. Nixon, 492 F.2d 587 (D.C. Cir. 1974).
27. Id. at 601.
28. Id. at 616.
29. Id. at 26.
30. Id. at 14.
31. Id. at 5.
32. Id. at 17.
33. P.L. 107-273, 116 Stat. 1771, sec. 303 (2002).
34. 38 Weekly Comp. Pres. Doc. 1971 (2002).