A Cyberspace Independence Refutation

[Dave Farber]

The President can not rule anything unconstitutional. He can tell justice
not to enforce it but sometime local federal prosecutors do what they want
and some future administration can decide to enforce it. Only the courts or
the congress can change things for sure.

Dave

At 03:20 PM 2/17/96 -0800, jamesd at echeque.com wrote:
>jamesd at echeque.com said:
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>>j> 1.  President Clinton declared CDA unconstitutional and directed
>>j> the Justice department to refrain from enforcing it.
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>At 01:57 PM 2/16/96 -0600, Sten Drescher wrote:
>>	Then why is the Justice Department defending it? 
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>Sorry:  My error.  As you pointed out he ruled *part* of the
>CDA unconstitutional -- a part that no one expected to be
>enforced anyway
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>of animals that we are. True law	|   James A. Donald
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