With all due respect to you, we ain't breaking new ground here. This has been well churned up in the past and there is a lot of info available on this.
You might want to start at Wikipedia.
Hi Ben,
Nobody said new ground. What I did say dealt with the meaning of words. This article suggests that Hayden is a doofus, and I tend to agree.
I’ve pinged a lawyer and we’ll see if he responds and says the Executive Branch is permitted to override the obvious meaning of words in the US Constitution.
Hope you have a great day!
“The legal opinion is that the Executive Branch, the prez, “must take care that the laws be faithfully executed”. Which overrides the legislative branch’s statues on warrantless surveillance”
So,,,,, to faithfully -execute- the law, you argue the president can override a properly passed and presidentially signed law. That’s rather circular, isn’t it? By that logic, the president at anytime can simply invalidate any law he pleases? IE,,what law was being “executed” under article II by the president overriding a properly passed and signed law?
Or maybe you misunderstood what is meant by the term “execute” a law. It means “enforce” the statute on warrantless surveillance, not execute it as in “put it to death”.