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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neocon who wrote (133788)	3/28/2001 7:37:05 AM
From: DMaA	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

I'd love to ask a Constitutional scholar this question. Opponents of McCain/Feingold want to add a non-severability clause to the bill so that if any item in the bill is found unconstitutional the whole bill becomes void. So the question is why does the judicial branch have the power to line item veto congressional bills but the executive does not? It seems like an odd asymmetry in the powers and checks and balances. Is this what the founders intended? Or is this just how the powers have been interpreted. Why? BTW, I am aware of that so-called line item veto law Congress passed a few years ago but that was a fraud.