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Mike Lee: “If these four words creates the unfettered discretion that the President and his Office of Legal Counsel claim, there is…”

On the recordDecember 9, 2014
If these four words creates the unfettered discretion that the President and his Office of Legal Counsel claim, there is no intelligible principle whatsoever, no channeling of the discretion given to the Executive.
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Mike Lee
Republican · Utah

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Lee critiques the lack of limits on Presidential discretion in lawmaking.

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