Remember back in school when you were forced to read and recite all that mumbo jumbo about "separation of powers," "checks and balances," and America’s "three branches" of government? What a drag, huh? Happily, schoolkids can forget all that noise from now on, thanks to the invention of magic presidential sticky notes known as “signing statements”.
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David Golove, a New York University law professor who specializes in executive-power issues, said Bush has cast a cloud over ”the whole idea that there is a rule of law,” because no one can be certain of which laws Bush thinks are valid and which he thinks he can ignore.
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A president who ignores the court, backed by a Congress that is unwilling to challenge him, Golove said, can make the Constitution simply “disappear.”
Simon says, “Poof.”
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