{"id":38794936,"date":"2006-07-23T04:13:07","date_gmt":"2006-07-23T04:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.casey.com\/2006\/07\/an-answer.html"},"modified":"2013-04-09T00:51:52","modified_gmt":"2013-04-09T00:51:52","slug":"200607an-answer-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/2006\/07\/23\/200607an-answer-html\/","title":{"rendered":"An Answer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/07\/21\/AR2006072101392.html\">Justice on a Short Leash<\/a><br \/>Why did the president cut off investigation of the NSA&#8217;s domestic surveillance program?<br \/><i>The Washington Post<\/i>, 7\/22\/06<\/p>\n<p>Because he thinks he&#8217;s above the Constitution, that&#8217;s why.<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE:<\/b>  Like I said&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"posterous_medium_quote\"><p>If the president has constitutional problems with a bill, the task force said, he should convey those concerns to Congress before it reaches his desk. The panel said signing statements should not be a substitute for vetoing bills the president considers unconstitutional.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The President&#8217;s constitutional duty is to enforce laws he has signed into being unless and until they are held unconstitutional by the Supreme Court or a subordinate tribunal,&#8221; panel members wrote. &#8220;The Constitution is not what the President says it is.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/07\/23\/AR2006072300511.html\">Bush&#8217;s Tactic of Refusing Laws Is Probed<\/a><br \/><i>The Washington Post<\/i>, 7\/24\/06<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Justice on a Short Leash Why did the president cut off investigation of the NSA&#8217;s domestic surveillance program?The Washington Post, 7\/22\/06 Because he thinks he&#8217;s above the Constitution, that&#8217;s why. UPDATE: Like I said&#8230; If the president has con&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18,19,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38794936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-rants"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3mOvc-2CMkM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38794936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38794936"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38794936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173354455,"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38794936\/revisions\/173354455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38794936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38794936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38794936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}