Law group chides Bush for his signing statements.
"The recommendations that we make are an effort to correct practices that, if they continue, threaten to throw the country into a constitutional crisis"
As the leader of an American Bar Association American Bar Association n. the largest organization of American lawyers, which has no official standing, but is prestigious in formulating guidelines for the practice of law, giving direction to legislation, lobbying for the law profession, and evaluating Federal judges. Less then one-third of attorneys belong to the A.B.A., and it is often dominated by the larger urban law firms and those who are interested in bar association politics. task force, Neal Sonnett urged his fellow lawyers to apply pressure to put an end to the president's use of signing statements designed to change the meaning of laws duly passed by Congress.
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