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...Until the 1980s, there had been just over a dozen in two centuries. The President's basic legislative weapon, after all, is the veto power given him by the founders. He can use the power as leverage to affect legislation or kill it. But he cannot legislate himself or interpret the law counter to Congress's intent. Signing statements were therefore relatively rare instances of presidential nuance or push-back. In eight years, Ronald Reagan used signing statements to challenge 71 legislative provisions, and Bill Clinton...
...He’s one of the few professors at Harvard that is good at what he does,” says Dean. “He’s a fascinating lecturer, and the class really taught me to read and interpret, and more importantly, how to think...
...fundamental principle of statutory interpretation "is that a statute must be interpreted according to the intent of the Legislature ascertained from all its words construed by the ordinary and approved usage of the language, considered in connection with the cause of its enactment, the mischief or imperfection to be remedied and the main object to be accomplished, to the end that the purpose of its framers may be effectuated." Hanlon v. Rollins, 286 Mass. 444, 447 (1934). See Sullivan v. Brookline, 435 Mass. 353, 360 (2001). Courts must ascertain the intent of a statute from all its parts and from...
...response, Kane stressed that the traditional in absentia method will remain a possibility.“Clearly it’s a very positive development,” Kane said yesterday of the new policy. “I don’t see how anyone can interpret this any other way.”Kane made his presentation to the Council—the Faculty’s governing body—together with the OIP’s director, Jane Edwards, who could not be reached for comment yesterday evening.MATERNITY LEAVE CHANGESAt the same meeting, Dillon Professor...
...Basic Law, Hong Kong's constitution since its handover to China in 1997, stipulates that the earliest possible date for a directly elected Chief Executive is 2007, and that a fully elected legislature must wait till at least 2008. In 2004, however, China's leaders exercised their power to interpret the Basic Law to decree that those dates were no longer acceptable. Now, Hong Kong Chief Executive Donald Tsang, the man in the middle, is trying to bring the two sides together with a limited reform package scheduled for a vote in the Legislative Council...