Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Government at Work - and "Signing Statements"
Historically, everyone looked for "loopholes" in poorly written laws.
These days, elected officials and their legal advisers are becoming more and more clever at finding ways to circumvent what they don't agree with.
Of course, the flaw is that elected officials have passed laws that allow themselves to ignore what they don't like...
These days, elected officials and their legal advisers are becoming more and more clever at finding ways to circumvent what they don't agree with.
Of course, the flaw is that elected officials have passed laws that allow themselves to ignore what they don't like...
Ed Morrissey recently posted about it at HotAir.com:
"It’s not for the first time, either — and not even the first time for a defense authorization bill. Under fire from civil libertarians on his left, Barack Obama will add a signing statement objecting to the McCain-Levin amendment on the jurisdiction of terror suspects captured in or out of the US. Attorney General Eric Holder announced the decision in an interview with the Wall Street Journal"
