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“The original intent of the framers was to require the president to either sign or veto a bill presented by Congress,” the report said, noting that the president vetoed his first bill just this month. “The president must defend the entire...
“The Constitution is one of the ‘Laws’ that the president ‘shall take Care...be faithfully executed,’” Whelan wrote. “When a bill has become law, the president has an obligation under...
In America, that's supposed to mean the Constitution.
There's a pretty fair argument to be made that Justice Powell should in fact have ignored Molly's advice and refused to find an abortion right in the Constitution - and it's not just the strict constructionist view that a judge's personal beliefs should not dictate one's...
She rejected arguments by gay-rights activists that Washington's 1998 "Defense of Marriage Act" (DOMA) - which limited marriage to one man and one woman and was passed despite the objections of the state's Democratic governor - violated the state constitution's requirements to treat all citizens equally. "DOMA treats...