Comments on: Yet More on Signing Statements http://poliblogger.com/?p=10851 A rough draft of my thoughts... Thu, 22 May 2024 10:32:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: MSS http://poliblogger.com/?p=10851#comment-960385 MSS Fri, 13 Oct 2024 14:49:53 +0000 http://poliblogger.com/?p=10851#comment-960385 It's a stealth (or it <i>was</i> stealth) campaign to increase executive power--it's the so-called "unitary" (really, unilateral) executive conception that has been around in certain GOP quarters since at least the 1980s, and which Alito and other GOP judges subscribe to. This is not Congress vs. President. It is the ideological core of the GOP (and its affiliated interest groups) against all else. Some parties (and the interests they represent) really do prefer a model in which legislation only sets broad parameters and the executive has the discretion to implement as he sees fit. That is, the explosion of the use of earmarks and the explosion of the use of signing statements are two sides of the same coin: <i>A legislature involved more in pork than in policy detail, alongside a unilateral presidency.</i> (This is the theme I have developed over the last 11 months in my "<a href="http://fruitsandvotes.com/?cat=62" rel="nofollow">Executive powers</a>" posts.) It’s a stealth (or it was stealth) campaign to increase executive power–it’s the so-called “unitary” (really, unilateral) executive conception that has been around in certain GOP quarters since at least the 1980s, and which Alito and other GOP judges subscribe to. This is not Congress vs. President. It is the ideological core of the GOP (and its affiliated interest groups) against all else.

Some parties (and the interests they represent) really do prefer a model in which legislation only sets broad parameters and the executive has the discretion to implement as he sees fit.

That is, the explosion of the use of earmarks and the explosion of the use of signing statements are two sides of the same coin: A legislature involved more in pork than in policy detail, alongside a unilateral presidency.

(This is the theme I have developed over the last 11 months in my “Executive powers” posts.)

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