The Constitutionality of an Expedited Rescission Act: The New Line Item Veto or a New Constitutional Method of Achieving Deficit Reduction
Seema Mittal · November 2007 76 GEO. WASH. L. REV. 141 (2007) In 1998, the Supreme Court considered a challenge to the Line Item Veto Act of 1996, which gave the President unilateral authority to rescind certain spending provisions already enacted into law, and found it unconstitutional. Nonetheless, in March 2006, President George W. Bush... Read More
Statutory Interpretation in the Context of Federal Jurisdiction
Debra Lyn Bassett · November 2007 76 GEO. WASH. L. REV. 52 (2007) Article III of the United States Constitution and by the statutory architecture set out in the Judicial Code. By longstanding and deeply entrenched interpretive practice, federal courts have erected a singular approach to statutory interpretation involving the primary statutory grants of judicial... Read More
Two Zones of Prophylaxis: The Scope of the Fourteenth Amendment Enforcement Power
Calvin Massey · November 2007 76 GEO. WASH. L. REV. 1 (2007) Although City of Boerne v. Floresestablished that Congress has nly a remedial power to enforce the Fourteenth Amendment and may not define for itself the substance of the Amendment’s guarantees, it left the boundaries of that power ill-defined. The Court acknowledged that “Congress... Read More