Along with an endorsement by the same crack legal team which justified torture.
Quote: Jay Wexler, Boston University law professor and author of "The Odd Clauses: Understanding the Constitution Through Ten of Its Most Curious Provisions," told The Note yesterday that the White House Office of Legal Counsel thoroughly reviewed the constitutionality of the practice for the Bush White House in 2005. Then-Deputy Attorney General Howard C. Nielson rendered this opinion:
We examine the legal understanding of the word 'sign' at the time the Constitution was drafted and ratified and during the early years of the Republic. We find that, pursuant to this understanding, a person may sign a document by directing that his signature be affixed to it by another . . . . Reading the constitutional text in light of this established legal understanding, we conclude that the President need not personally perform the physical act of affixing his signature to a bill to sign it within the meaning of Article I, Section 7 [of the Constitution.]
Autopen, not Obama, signs Patriot Act extension into law - Yahoo! News
Why not a rose garden signing surrounded by blindfolded prisoners in orange jumpsuits standing on milk crates?
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