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To: Lmo56
He set up the machine to do so, and authorized its use for this specific bill.

This just isn't unconstitutional. The Constititution says he has to sign the bill. It doesn't say how he has to sign it, or what implements he can or can't use. It just says he has to sign it. His signature is affixed. By his autopen. With his permission and intent. He signed the bill.

There isn't a Court in this country that is going to rule that a bill is unconstitutional because the President used a automated pen to sign a bill rather than a ball-point pen. It is a petty technicality at best. If a staffer forged his signature, with an autopen or a regular pen ... then you have an unconstitutional bill.

Does it matter whether he had to leave town? That's certainly not anywhere in the Constitution.

SnakeDoc

19 posted on 01/03/2013 2:51:43 PM PST by SnakeDoctor (Come and take it.)
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To: SnakeDoctor
His signature is affixed. By his autopen. With his permission and intent. He signed the bill.

Its not his signature, its a facsimile ...

You cannot just willy-nilly decide what is constitutional - based on "permission and intent". You have to follow the law.

The law says that the President must sign - not a damn machine ...

22 posted on 01/03/2013 3:00:34 PM PST by Lmo56 (If ya wanna run with the big dawgs - ya gotta learn to piss in the tall grass ...)
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To: SnakeDoctor

If the anti-gun twits can say that the Second Amendment only applies to flintlock muskets, then the President must sign all legislation with a quill pen.


37 posted on 01/03/2013 5:34:36 PM PST by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class.)
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