W. hasn't signed.......

[Waya]

......the Torture Bill yet, to my knowledge.....I thought he had only 10 days to either sign it or veto it.....after the ten days are up isn't it automatically law? Am I missing something?

[havocmom]

1. He was in such a hurry to get it passed to protect us from terraists

then he went off campaigning.

[grasswire]

2. he didn't get the bill until the 10th.

So he has until the 20th.

I suspect there's an effort to put it off until after the election, somehow.

[Recursion]

8. 21st. Sundays don't count n/t

[Skidmore]

3. He doesn't really want his name on that thing.

History can then see it as the work of the Congress--freaking fools that they are.

[Waya]

11. I was thinking that, too......

.....maybe W.'s disgusting way of getting what he wants while not taking responsibility for his part in it....what else is new?

[Gabi Hayes]

4. check out pocket veto

all depends on when the bill was passed

[Waya]

7. It wouldn't make sense tho.....

.he was so hot and heavy about ramming this thing thru...why nix it with the pocket veto?

[Gabi Hayes]

10. that's the way the law works....I don't know when the bill was

passed by both houses; that's the nub

Looks like others have already discussed that part

[Recursion]

5. He doesn't have to sign it

If he doesn't sign it within 10 days and Congress is in session, it becomes law. If Congress isn't in session, it doesn't become law. That's called a pocket veto. Case law, to my knowledge, is divided on the subject of whether a seasonal adjournment like what Congress is currently on counts.

[mediaman007]

6. His signing statement is probably so complicated that it hasn't

been completed yet. I can hardly wait how he reacts to this bill that was just about what he and Cheney wanted. No doubt, Bush* will take away everyone's civil rights with this signing statement.

[StellaBlue]

9. He has 30 days on this one - he hasn't signed it because

he is waiting til right before the election, so they can make a big show about it.

[Waya]

13. He has 30 days?

[StellaBlue]

16. That's what Sam Seder was saying this morning

:)

[Ian David]

12. He's still composing his signing statement. n/t

[bcoylepa]

14. October 17

I heard that 10/17 is the day scheduled for the signing - - this from a friend who is a lawyer for several detainees. The laywers are all hustling to file briefs before this becomes law
shame on all of us

[Rex]

15. Even Shithead knows that if he signs that thing, there is no going back.

No going back as in very, very bad for we American citizens. :(

THAT is how big of a change to 100s of years of the 'law of the land' being the rule and not the exception. Now it will be that the law is interpreted (and executed) by the WRONG branch. Only one branch would rule over two other lame-duck branches.

Signing the bill would make him a dictator on paper and by law. Unless the SCOTUS steps in and stops this madness. Which I know they won't.