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Presidential Signing Statements
Friday November 17, 2006
3:00 p.m. – 4:15 p.m.
The Wharton School
John M. Huntsman Hall
3730 Walnut Street
Presidents have long used signing statements to add their views on
legislation they dislike but won’t veto. President Nixon used them to
point out excessive expenditures in spending bills. President
Carter used
them to make sure that Congress did not encroach on executive duties
established by the Constitution. But President George W. Bush has used
them
more frequently than any other President, over 700 times since taking
office.
On this edition of Justice Talking we look at the use and abuse of
presidential
signing statements.
with special guests
HON. MICKEY EDWARDS, a lecturer at Princeton
University's Woodrow
Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the executive
director of
the Aspen Institute-Rodel Fellowships in Public Leadership. He is also
an
advisor to the U.S. Department of State and a member of the Princeton
Project
on National Security. He is a founding trustee of the Heritage
Foundation, a former national chair of the American Conservative Union
and
director of policy advisory task forces for the Reagan presidential
campaign,
and he served as an Oklahoma congressman for 16 years.
CHRISTOPHER SCHROEDER, a professor of law and public policy studies and the director of the Program in Public Law at Duke University. Schroeder has served as deputy assistant attorney general in the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel and chief counsel for the Senate Judiciary Committee. He is co-chair of the Separation of Powers and Federalism issue group for the American Constitution Society’s Project on the Constitution in the 21st Century. Along with other former officials of the Office of Legal Counsel, Schroeder authored a statement on presidential signing statements that disagrees with some of the American Bar Association’s task force report on the same subject.
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