Presidential Signing Statements

| Mon Jan. 9, 2006 3:10 PM GMT

Digby of Hullaballoo has an important post on President Bush's use of "signing statements" to signal to Congress that he has no intention of following the actual laws that are passed in the legislature. Here's a Knight-Ridder story on the subject:



In some cases, Bush bluntly informs Congress that he has no intention of carrying out provisions that he considers an unconstitutional encroachment on his authority.Are there any Republicans in Congress who actually care that the president considers them more or less irrelevant whenever he feels like? It doesn't seem so.
