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To: talleyman
Sigh...The War Powers Act.
4 posted on 03/13/2003 11:16:31 AM PST by LisaFab (Free Miguel Estrada!)
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To: LisaFab
I gather that you consider the War Powers Act to be unconstitutional. As a practitioner in the Supreme Court, I also consider it unconstitutional.

However, this case was decided on the War Powers Clause of the Constitution itself. And it threw out the case, exactly as I predicted it would do when it was first filed. Based on prior cases, the US SC will NOT consider the constitutionality of the War Powers Act, while hostilities are going on. (It has also filed several opportunities to take up that issue when war was NOT going on. Sometimes the cowardice of the Court is overwhelming.)

Congressman Billybob

Latest column, not yet up on UPI, and FR, "Once, Twice, Three Times a Moron"

Latest book(let), "to Restore Trust in America."

17 posted on 03/13/2003 12:37:15 PM PST by Congressman Billybob
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