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Well, if your first sentence is correct, then I think we have a major constitutional crisis, because I just described what amounts to an effective repeal of the
by jeremyt 13y ago
Well, if your first sentence is correct, then I think we have a major constitutional crisis, because I just described what amounts to an effective repeal of the law.
To extend the idea further: What's to stop the president from changing any deadline or date in any law? Almost every bill passed by Congress contains a line that reads "this act is to be effective on date X". If the president can waive this it will, then we have not only just given him a line-item veto, we have given him a line item repeal.
If the case is that the only impediment to the executive branch unilaterally rewriting laws is politics, then we don't really live in a representative government with checks and balances, we live in a term limited elected dictatorship.
It's my opinion that the current president is firmly in unconstitutional territory.
- ceejayoz 13y agohttp://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/07/delaying-parts-of-obamacare-blatantly-illegal-or-routine-adjustment/277873/ http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/07/delaying... Basically, plenty of precedent, as the President's responsibility to "faithfully execute" the law can be argued to allow reasonable delays to get it right rather than ruining the thing by sticking to a deadline.