Reality Check: Breaking Down Obama’s NDAA Signing Statement
The President issued a signing statement when he signed the National Defense Authorization Act into law. Conservatives are freaking out over the alleged hypocrisy of Obamas usage of a signing statement and the less hysterical are still confused as to what it really means, if indeed, it means anything. So, lets break it down.
A signing statement is something of a public pronouncement a president might make about a bill they are signing into law. They have been used to clarify their positions or elaborate dissent. In modern times, they are used to direct executive agencies to interpret the law according to the Presidents interpretation of the Constitution.
As such, Attorney General Eric Holder explained that the signing statement clarifies how the Obama administration views the law and how they (executive agencies like the DoJ) will interpret it.
Obama used this signing statement to amend and clarify his administrations interpretation of NDAA, a bill he is already on record as objecting to. Due to the administrations objections and the ACLUs objections, the language in the original was clarified and changed. However, all law is open to interpretation and cant be taken alone the NDAA in concert with the Patriot Act, for example, could be interpreted to mean something much differently than the Obama administration would want to agree to thus, the signing statement.
SNIP
http://www.politicususa.com/en/reality-obama-ndaa-signing-statement
p.s. The article is about much more than just the NDAA 'signing statement', the article talks about signing statements in general.
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)in the Democrats in Congress for allowing such a piece of shit bill to pass. They support the 1%. Fuk them.
ixion
(29,528 posts)Seriously.
SixthSense
(829 posts)"Fascism"
yodermon
(6,143 posts)signing statements have no legal weight.
didn't under bush
don't under obama.
why people get all frothy over this i have no idea.
SixthSense
(829 posts)and the fact that signing statements have no legal weight means that this signing statement does nothing to restrain this unrestrained power in the hands of the next Republican president!
jaxx
(9,236 posts)From Milt Shook:
Here is the final version of NDAA
http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-112hr1540enr/pdf/BILLS-112hr1540enr.pdf
Now, find the section that creates "indefinite detention."
People are using the wrong bill, not the final one. Anyone who talks about NDAA, cites sections 1022 et seq are using the wrong version of the bill.
Thx
Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)Sections 1031/1032 were numbered that way in The Senate bill,
but in the final version those sections were renumbered to be 1021 and 1022.
Subtitle DCounterterrorism
Starting on page number 265, is where Sections 1021 and 1022 are located.
http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-112hr1540enr/pdf/BILLS-112hr1540enr.pd
jaxx
(9,236 posts)I'll let him know.
MannyGoldstein
(34,589 posts)[this space intentionally left blank]
I never realize it was so involved and complicated.
GeorgeGist
(25,322 posts)"Fascism can't happen here!"
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