>This was something new to me. I hope I can do the same in my agreements (for loans, insurance, etc)...
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>Apparently, When President Bush signed the bill forbidding torture, it was accompanied by a "signing statement" that said, in effect, that he will disregard the law when he sees fit.
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>Does this mean that the law is all show and actually meaningless?
These were new to me as well, but from what I heard on NPR last night it is the signing statement that is essentially meaningless. The law is the law.
Dan LeClair
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