I’m not as inclined as Ramesh is to doubt that George Will endorses the arguments against presidential signing statements that he borrows from writer Charlie Savage, and which Ed Whelan so ably criticizes below. It’s Will, not Dodd, who brings up Savage’s book (and Will who has clearly had an advance look at a tome not yet in stores), and he hasn’t a critical word to say about it. (Nor about Dodd, for that matter–who somehow merits praise because his father was a lawyer at Nuremberg.) Will’s final paragraph looks to me like an endorsement of the Savage thesis, actually.
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Matthew J. Franck is a senior fellow at the Witherspoon Institute, a senior contributing editor of Public Discourse, a lecturer in politics at Princeton University, and professor emeritus of political science at Radford University.
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