To: faucetman
“This guy, whoever he is, what makes him the authority?”
Congress is the authority, and they employ “this guy” to provide them with expert non-partisan legal analysis.
To: BladeBryan
Congress is the authority, and they employ “this guy” to provide them with expert non-partisan legal analysis.
BWAHAHAHAHAHA!
Congress failed, and mightily at that!
83 posted on
11/30/2011 3:24:02 PM PST by
philman_36
(Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
To: BladeBryan
And speaking of Congress employing this guy...since the CRS
does work for Congress can you tell me which member, or member
s, of that body asked for this report?
Congressional Research Service
As a legislative branch agency within the Library of Congress, CRS works exclusively and directly for Members of Congress, their Committees and staff on a confidential, nonpartisan basis.
Surely Mr. Maskell didn't undertake this unsolicited and of his own accord...did he?
84 posted on
11/30/2011 3:36:10 PM PST by
philman_36
(Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
To: BladeBryan
Congress is the authority, and they employ “this guy” to provide them with expert non-partisan legal analysis. Congress has no authority to re-define constitutional terms. Neither do the Courts. The Constitution is the SOURCE of their power, they are not the masters.
The Only Authority capable of re-defining constitutional terms is the combined effect of both House and Senate with 3/4ths of the State Legislatures voting in the affirmative.
88 posted on
11/30/2011 3:44:18 PM PST by
DiogenesLamp
(Partus sequitur Patrem)
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