electbarnhill.com — Talk show host Alex Jones? brief interview last week with an unknown caller has sent constitutionalists and legal researchers scurrying for the law books. ?The Military Commission Act is not law!? the man barked. ?The ?pocket veto? clause of the Constitution has already nullified it.?
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It would pretty god damned funny if Bush *though* he was making the bill law by not signing it and failed to consider a short adjournment as possible veto of the bill. It would be funny if he had to go crawling back to the Judiciary to get clarification (and I wonder, in the context of an impeachment, what impact this would have on the final days of this sorry-assed administration).Still the fact that "Courts have never fully clarified when an adjournment by Congress would" produce a vetoed bill is endemic of the political profession's deep seated desire to never commit to something or be held accountable for decisions made. I think the entire controversy is indicative of just how irrelevant the Constitution has become under the Bush administration. ...and in my opinion, "law makers" pass way too god damned many laws in the first place. Political representation through law making is of questionable effectiveness in general, but, unfortunately, in America, that is what "Democracy" has become.