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Responses to the Task Force on Presidential Signing Statements

To read a copy of the ABA Task Force Report, click HERE. (PDF).
Listen to/read an explanation of the Report from Bruce Fein, who served as a member of the Task Force and as former Deputy Associate Attorney General, click HERE.
University of Chicago Law Professor Richard Epstein identified in an op-ed some of the "troubling" aspects to President Bush's use of the practice, click HERE.
Thomas Mann and Norman Ornstein of The Brookings Institution explain the "threat," click HERE.

To read a critique written by a number of prominent conservatives, click HERE.
Testimony from the Federalist Society Chairman, Professor Stephen Calabresi, click HERE.
The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board came out in defense of the practice, click HERE.
Professor Robert Turner, former three-term chairman of both the ABA's Standing Committee on Law and National Security and the Committee on Executive-Congressional Relations of the ABA section on International Law and Practice, criticized the Report, click HERE.