On Monday, Washington Post reported that Samuel Alito crafted the strategy that Bush is using to ignore the law on torture which John wrote about below:
In a Feb. 5, 1986, draft memo, Alito, then deputy assistant attorney general in the Office of Legal Counsel, outlined a strategy for changing that. It laid out a case for having the president routinely issue statements about the meaning of statutes when he signs them into law.Now, Bush is using Alito's strategy to ignore the law. No wonder they want Alito on the Supreme Court. He'll fit right in with their dictatorship.
Such "interpretive signing statements" would be a significant departure from run-of-the-mill bill signing pronouncements, which are "often little more than a press release," Alito wrote. The idea was to flag constitutional concerns and get courts to pay as much attention to the president's take on a law as to "legislative intent."
