05/06/2009
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"We are a nation of laws, and it is not necessarily for you or I to be the final arbiter here."
"You're now having some in the executive branch saying, ‘We don't think the courts should be deciding this. We think that this is our authority.'"
"So it requires us, in the legislative branch, to then assert our responsibility, which is to not cede the authority."
"To have the executive basically come in and dismantle something that was legislatively created — that's outside the bounds of the executive."