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My guess is that Obama will resign the law before this gets to court rendering the issue moot, but I would love to see this challenged.
Isnt technology wonderful? Yes, but is it constitutional?
President Barack Obama, or rather a machine impersonating the president, signed a bill late Thursday extending certain expiring provisions of the Patriot Act, the anti-terrorism law enacted in the wake of September 11.
Obama, 3,725 miles and six time zones removed across the Atlantic Ocean in France at a meeting of G-8 leaders, did not sign the bill personally.
Because directions from Washington to Deauville, France, are tricky (We could not calculate directions between Washington D.C., and Deauville, France., claims Google Maps), an autopen replicated Obamas signature, White House spokesman Nick Shapiro told ABC News in a statement.
Barack Obama | Autopen Signature | Patriot Act Extension | The Daily Caller
I do have a prediction though, all the Obamabots will line up in defense of this.
My guess is that Obama will resign the law before this gets to court rendering the issue moot, but I would love to see this challenged.
Isnt technology wonderful? Yes, but is it constitutional?
President Barack Obama, or rather a machine impersonating the president, signed a bill late Thursday extending certain expiring provisions of the Patriot Act, the anti-terrorism law enacted in the wake of September 11.
Obama, 3,725 miles and six time zones removed across the Atlantic Ocean in France at a meeting of G-8 leaders, did not sign the bill personally.
Because directions from Washington to Deauville, France, are tricky (We could not calculate directions between Washington D.C., and Deauville, France., claims Google Maps), an autopen replicated Obamas signature, White House spokesman Nick Shapiro told ABC News in a statement.
Barack Obama | Autopen Signature | Patriot Act Extension | The Daily Caller
I do have a prediction though, all the Obamabots will line up in defense of this.
tHE ISSUE IS SOOO 1995
ABC News pointed out that the issue of the constitutionality of the autopen was studied in 1995 and that then-Deputy Attorney General Howard C. Nielson confirmed that using an autopen to sign a bill into law is indeed constitutional.
We examine the legal understanding of the word sign at the time the Constitution was drafted and ratified and during the early years of the Republic, Nielson wrote in an Office of Legal Counsel opinion. We find that, pursuant to this understanding, a person may sign a document by directing that his signature be affixed to it by another. Reading the constitutional text in light of this established legal understanding, we conclude that the President need not personally perform the physical act of affixing his signature to a bill to sign it within the meaning of Article I, Section 7 [of the Constitution.]
Read more: Barack Obama | Autopen Signature | Patriot Act Extension | The Daily Caller
My guess is that Obama will resign the law before this gets to court rendering the issue moot, but I would love to see this challenged.
Isnt technology wonderful? Yes, but is it constitutional?
President Barack Obama, or rather a machine impersonating the president, signed a bill late Thursday extending certain expiring provisions of the Patriot Act, the anti-terrorism law enacted in the wake of September 11.
Obama, 3,725 miles and six time zones removed across the Atlantic Ocean in France at a meeting of G-8 leaders, did not sign the bill personally.
Because directions from Washington to Deauville, France, are tricky (We could not calculate directions between Washington D.C., and Deauville, France., claims Google Maps), an autopen replicated Obamas signature, White House spokesman Nick Shapiro told ABC News in a statement.
Barack Obama | Autopen Signature | Patriot Act Extension | The Daily Caller
I do have a prediction though, all the Obamabots will line up in defense of this.
No less constitutional to sign a bill without seeing it as to pass a bill without reading it. LOL
My guess is that Obama will resign the law before this gets to court rendering the issue moot, but I would love to see this challenged.
Barack Obama | Autopen Signature | Patriot Act Extension | The Daily CallerIsnt technology wonderful? Yes, but is it constitutional?
President Barack Obama, or rather a machine impersonating the president, signed a bill late Thursday extending certain expiring provisions of the Patriot Act, the anti-terrorism law enacted in the wake of September 11.
Obama, 3,725 miles and six time zones removed across the Atlantic Ocean in France at a meeting of G-8 leaders, did not sign the bill personally.
Because directions from Washington to Deauville, France, are tricky (We could not calculate directions between Washington D.C., and Deauville, France., claims Google Maps), an autopen replicated Obamas signature, White House spokesman Nick Shapiro told ABC News in a statement.
I do have a prediction though, all the Obamabots will line up in defense of this.
this is a toughie QW. On the one hand. I seriously doubt that Obama hadn't read that bill at some point, and it would be impossible to prove he didn't. On the other hand, it is weird that they had an autopen sign it. On the other hand though we sign things electronically everyday.
In the end I'd say no big deal.
No less constitutional to sign a bill without seeing it as to pass a bill without reading it. LOL
My guess is that Obama will resign the law before this gets to court rendering the issue moot, but I would love to see this challenged.
Isnt technology wonderful? Yes, but is it constitutional?
President Barack Obama, or rather a machine impersonating the president, signed a bill late Thursday extending certain expiring provisions of the Patriot Act, the anti-terrorism law enacted in the wake of September 11.
Obama, 3,725 miles and six time zones removed across the Atlantic Ocean in France at a meeting of G-8 leaders, did not sign the bill personally.
Because directions from Washington to Deauville, France, are tricky (We could not calculate directions between Washington D.C., and Deauville, France., claims Google Maps), an autopen replicated Obamas signature, White House spokesman Nick Shapiro told ABC News in a statement.
Barack Obama | Autopen Signature | Patriot Act Extension | The Daily Caller
I do have a prediction though, all the Obamabots will line up in defense of this.
Here is the question you are asking. "Is it ok for a machine to sign a bill in to law." The answer is easily no.
The President cannot give Power of Auttourney to an autopen and delegate SPECIFIC constitutional requirements to a machine. Trust me. If any lawyer finds that information of his client was gathered during the 10 day time perioud he could have it thrown out.
And I disagree with him.
Thats nice.
You can disagree the sky is blue, that doesnt change the fact it is.
Your only next post should be a DOJ memo or document vacating the one in post 11.
Needless to say if this were a republican president doing the some thing, youd think it perfectly acceptable.
This is a non-issue.
My guess is that Obama will resign the law before this gets to court rendering the issue moot, but I would love to see this challenged.
Barack Obama | Autopen Signature | Patriot Act Extension | The Daily Caller
I do have a prediction though, all the Obamabots will line up in defense of this.
this is a toughie QW. On the one hand. I seriously doubt that Obama hadn't read that bill at some point, and it would be impossible to prove he didn't. On the other hand, it is weird that they had an autopen sign it. On the other hand though we sign things electronically everyday.
In the end I'd say no big deal.
I honestly think it is an interesting question, one that I would love to see resolved. Unfortunately the Obama defenders see this as a direct challenge to their messiah, and take a blindly partisan stance. This is one of the times I would have loved to be wrong.