A lot of crazy stuff tends to happen on New Year’s Eve. It’s amusing to analyze, say, the Lady Gaga–Mayor Bloomberg midnight kiss, but you’ve also probably heard about another buzzworthy, albeit less ...

In a historic challenge to an incumbent president, the American Bar Association has created a task force on "Presidential Signing Statements and the Separation of Powers Doctrine." To more than 750 ...

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In recent decades, presidents have started to routinely use “signing statements” to claim a constitutional right to bypass provisions of bills they are signing into law. The American Bar Association ...

A Government Accountability Office report released this week criticizes the way President Bush uses signing statements, saying he is ignoring parts of some bills he sends to Congress. The signing ...

When we last updated this issue in July 2009, President Barack Obama had issued seven signing statements. That number now stands at 18. In the intervening period, one statement in particular -- his ...

Last year, we praised President Obama for signing a long overdue update to the Whistle Protection Act of 1989. It was an update that Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley had been championing for more than a ...

Congress has a golden opportunity to advance cooperative relations between the Executive and Congressional branches, and to promote transparency that will enable public understanding of our laws and ...

John Henke posts this video of Obama saying on the campaign trail that as president he would end George W. Bush’s practice of attaching “signing statements” to bills he was signing into law. Obama, ...

When he was a candidate, Barack Obama used signing statements as a convenient point of contrast with his predecessor. President George W. Bush issued more than 100 such statements, signaling that his ...