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In a report to be released Monday, an American Bar Association task force will recommend that Congress pass legislation providing for some sort of judicial review of presidential signing statements. Some task force members want to give Congress the right to sue over the signing statements; other task force members will not characterize what sort of judicial review might ultimately emerge.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/072206A.shtml

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Group decries Bush's law interpretations

Cambridge Daily-Jeff

07/23/06

President Bush's penchant for writing exceptions to laws he has just signed violates the Constitution, an American Bar Association task force says in a report highly critical of the practice. The ABA group, which includes a one-time FBI director and former federal appeals court judge, said the president has overstepped his authority in attaching challenges to hundreds of new laws...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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American Bar Association Objects to Bush's "Signing Statements"

The American Bar Association said Sunday that President Bush was flouting the Constitution and undermining the rule of law by claiming the power to disregard selected provisions of bills that he signed. In a comprehensive report, a bipartisan 11-member panel of the bar association said Mr. Bush had used such "signing statements" far more than his predecessors, raising Constitutional objections to more than 800 provisions in more than 100 laws on the ground that they infringed on his prerogatives.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/072406B.shtml