[GunRunner]

Hasn’t the line-item veto been ruled unconstitutional?

[mazda77]

Hasn’t the line-item veto been ruled unconstitutional?

When was that ever an obstacle to him?

[Bahbah]

Yes, it has been ruled unconstitutional. Mark Levin and his group looked into this extensively and concluded that that was a correct decision.

This is grandstanding.

[Scotsman will be Free]

Yup. The repubs passed it into law once and it was struck down by SCOTUS.

[okie01]

...even create a constitutionally viable line-item veto to "give the President power to strike out wasteful earmarks and other extraneous spending items."

"Hasn’t the line-item veto been ruled unconstitutional?"

McCain hasn't let a little thing like that bother him in the past.

To do what they want to do will require a constitutional amendment. But that's just too damn hard...

McCain has ceased to be useful as a Senator, as well as a Republican.

[MozarkDawg]

Hasn’t the line-item veto been ruled unconstitutional?

It wasn't the line-item veto that was ruled unconstitutional, it was the way the line-item veto that was passed was written that was determined invalid -- Congress wrote it so that after a president signed legislation into law, he would then line out specific items, violating the separation of powers. The tool has to be written so that a president will line out items BEFORE he then signs the legislation into law.