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Originally Posted by samcol
I wasn't trying to disagree with you even though it may of come across that way. I agree that Bush, Clinton, and most presidents of the last 100 years haven't been very friendly to the constitution, but I just happened to of read that article about Bush and wanted to point out how shocking some of the signing statements were for some people who have never heard about them.
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here's the thing with signing statements as it deals with the constitution.
The executive branch has 1/3rd the power to decide whether a law is constitutional or not. If the bush admin so chooses, it does not have to enforce a law it considers unconstitutional. When it does that, and it's obviously a constitutional law, the legislature has to do two things.
Take it to the USSC where the court can declare the constitutionality of such law and order the admin to follow/enforce the law, of which the admin can still say it's not constitutional and refuse to follow/enforce said law. If that happens, then the legislature has, as a final option, impeachment or censure.