Thinkprogress:
Vice President Cheney signed on to a brief filed by a majority of Congress yesterday that urged the Supreme Court to declare Washington D.C.’s handgun ban is unconstitutional, “breaking with his own administration’s official position.” The administration has called for the Supreme Court to return the case to lower courts for further review:
In order to make his dramatic break with the administration, Cheney invoked his rarely used status as part of Congress, joining the brief as “President of the United States Senate, Richard B. Cheney.” It is a position he has used at times to make the point that he is sometimes part of the legislative branch and sometimes part of the executive.
“Lawyers with long experience at the court could not recall another case in which a vice president took a position different from that of his own administration.” To my knowledge, I don’t recollect it ever happening before,” said Richard Lazarus, co-director of the Supreme Court Institute at Georgetown Law Center.
2 comments:
Sometimes our Supreme Leader forgets he is not the President, even though he has been doing that job for 7+ years.
No one can believe that he (Gerbil) has been capable of doing the job of President when they see and hear him talk (when things have not been written for him), he is not capable of running a 7/11 much less a country.
so true TGCN but also Dick has favors he has to deliver. Shooting people is not a crime if your a GOP or friend. Guns don't kill, people kill. Now Dick is able to do what he wants as both President and Vice President because we have no President. All the GOP back room Leaders do is give George W. a bottle of Jack Daniels and some weed and do as they want. Most of the time Bush doesn't know what he's saying because he's not running the country. He's left out of the loop just like the American people.
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