So what? Do you want start posting the executive o
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Or do you believe only the most odious executive orders come from Dem presidents?
I'll bet that you'll find some extra-constitutional shit and questionable 'signing statements' from Dubya, post 9'11
and such.
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A Congressional Research Service report issued on September 17, 2007,[7] uses as a metric the percentage of signing statements that contain "objections" to provisions of the bill being signed into law:
President Reagan issued 250 signing statements, 86 of which (34%) contained provisions objecting to one or more of the statutory provisions signed into law. President George H. W. Bush continued this practice, issuing 228 signing statements, 107 of which (47%) raised objections.
President [Bill] Clinton's conception of presidential power proved to be largely consonant with that of the preceding two administrations. In turn, President Clinton made aggressive use of the signing statement, issuing 381 statements, 70 of which (18%) raised constitutional or legal objections. President George W. Bush has continued this practice, issuing 152 signing statements, 118 of which (78%) contain some type of challenge or objection.[7]
In March 2009, The New York Times cited a different metric, the number of sections within bills that were challenged in signing statements:
Mr. [George W.] Bush ... broke all records, using signing statements to challenge about 1,200 sections of bills over his eight years in office, about twice the number challenged by all previous presidents combined, according to data compiled by Christopher Kelley, a political science professor at Miami University in Ohio.[ 8]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signing_statement