Jimmy Carter actually said...

I have a responsibility to my successors and to the American people not to permit that encroachment to take place.

I have been committed to the vigorous enforcement of the Fourteenth Amendment to our Constitution and of our civil rights laws.

That would be a most undesirable interference with the constitutional separation of powers.

I am returning without my signature H.R. 7584, the State-Justice-Commerce Appropriations Act of 1980.