Is President Bushs use of signing statements constitutional?
From this article: Another committee member, Senator Russ Feingold, Democrat of Wisconsin, also questioned Bush’s assertions that he has the authority to give himself an exemption from certain laws. ”Unfortunately, the president’s signing statement on the Patriot Act is hardly the first time that he has shown a disrespect for the rule of law,” Feingold said. ”The Boston Globe reported on Sunday that the president has used signing statements to reserve the right to break the law more than 750 times.” Feingold is an outspoken critic of Bush’s assertion that his wartime powers give him the authority to set aside laws. The senator has proposed censuring Bush over his domestic spying program, in which the president secretly authorized the military to wiretap Americans’ phones without a warrant, bypassing a 1978 surveillance law.
