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Volume 7: Issue 2
The ABA and the Presidential Signing Statement Controversy
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The big news from the American Bar Association’s annual meeting this year was its resolution condemning the misuse of presidential signing statements. This followed a much-ballyhooed report by a blue-ribbon ABA task force and statements from its chair,Neil Sonnett, tying the ABA action to criticism of the Bush Administration.