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3. Ironically, years ago, the GOP salivated at and demanded the ability of a President to do a "line item veto"

Thu Mar 27, 2025, 07:11 PM

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Congress passed such a law but it set to only go into effect for the next President after passage... and that ended up being Clinton.

S.4 - Line Item Veto Act

And you can imagine what happened next (struck down))...

Clinton v. City of New York, 524 U.S. 417 (1998)

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