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New - but very minor - signing-statement claim that Trump or a future president has constitutional authority to lawfully override a particular newly enacted statute
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…in reply to @charlie_savage
Actually maybe not so minor: compare it to Obama's decision to transfer 5 Gitmo detainees in the Bergdahl prisoner swap w/out giving Congress 30 days notice as a statute required. Trump is endorsing an exec power theory GOP loudly rejected under Obama. nytimes.com/2015/12/10/us/politics/house-republicans-denounce-obamas-handling-of-prisoner-exchange.html
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…in reply to @charlie_savage
....Actually-ing my actually, that's apples and oranges, as this Peace Corps office closure signing statement is targeting the Congressional consultation component, not the notice component.
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Drilling down on this, the Bush administration a few times made the same move (even though consultation is something short of permission) coherentbabble.com/Statements/SShr4939.pdf coherentbabble.com/Statements/SShr4200.pdf coherentbabble.com/Statements/SShr3.pdf coherentbabble.com/Statements/SShr1815.pdf coherentbabble.com/Statements/SShr233.pdf
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…in reply to @charlie_savage
But Obama legal team seems to have abandoned it. So some Trump lawyer unearthed it as a thing to saber-rattle about. Here's one earlier Trtumpy instance.
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