CABL Forum - Re: Abuse of Executive Orders

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"President, DOJ Have Authority To Refuse To EnforceUnconstitutional Laws1994 DOJ Memo Outlines Circumstances In Which The President May Appropriately Decline To Enforce A Statute That He Views As Unconstitutional. From 1994 Department of Justicememorandum, written by then-Assistant Attorney General Walter Dellinger"

"Ronald Reagan Chose Not To Defend A Congressional Resolution Vetoing An INS Deportation Decision. In INS v. Chadha, the Reagan administration was actively involved in arguing that a law passed by Congress was unconstitutional:"

George H. W. Bush Didn’t Defend Federal Statutes That Required Minority Preferences In Broadcast Licensing. As Former Justice Department Attorney Martin Lederman explained in 2005, while Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts worked in President George H. W. Bush's Office of the Solicitor General, he was instrumental in the decision for the Justice Department not to defend federal statutes that required minority preferences in broadcast licensing in Metro Broadcasting v. Federal Communications Commission:

Clinton Administration Didn’t Defend A Law Requiring Dismissal Of HIV-Positive Service Members. In a 1996 press briefing, Jack Quinn, then counsel to President Clinton, stated that the Clinton administration would not defend a law requiring the dismissal of HIV-positive men and women serving in the armed forces, because they deemed it unconstitutional:

George W. Bush DOJ Didn’t Defend A Law Prohibiting The Display Of Marijuana Policy Reform Ads. In ACLU et al., v. Norman Y Mineta, the Justice Department chose not to defend a law prohibiting the display of marijuana policy reform ads in public transportation systems:

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Re: Abuse of Executive Orders