Dr. Jekyll, Mr. Hyde, and Arlen Specter

so, which arlen specter are we dealing with today...?

“We will submit legislation to the United States Senate which will...authorize the Congress to undertake judicial review of those signing statements with the view to having the president’s acts declared unconstitutional,” Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter, R-Pa., said on the Senate floor.

Specter’s announcement came the same day that an American Bar Association task force concluded that by attaching conditions to legislation, the president has sidestepped his constitutional duty to either sign a bill, veto it, or take no action.

this is hard on the heels of the aba announcement i posted the other day...

To mount a legal case, a person or group must have been granted "standing," or the right to file a lawsuit. Current law does not grant members of Congress such a right, and recent Supreme Court decisions have denied it in all but very exceptional cases. But Congress could consider bypassing that hurdle by writing a law to give its members the right to sue, a resolution in the task force's report declares, a source familiar with the task force report told U.S. News.

ok, senator, make up my mind... one day you're kissing george's ass and the next day you're kicking it... i know it's not a full moon so all i'm left with is that you're schizoid... help me out here...

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