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What happened to the line item veto? 🤔
43 posted on 03/23/2018 9:50:54 AM PDT by proust ("The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday, but never jam today.")
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To: proust
What happened to the line item veto?

Unconstitutional. Struck down by the Supreme Court 20 years ago.

58 posted on 03/23/2018 9:54:08 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: proust

Friday, June 26, 1998;
The Supreme Court yesterday struck down the broad new line-item
veto authority that Congress had given the president to cancel specific
items in spending and tax bills.


93 posted on 03/23/2018 10:08:15 AM PDT by deport
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