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Re: A Cyberspace Independence Refutation
The President can not rule anything unconstitutional. He can tell justice
not to enforce it but sometime local federal prosecutors do what they want
and some future administration can decide to enforce it. Only the courts or
the congress can change things for sure.
Dave
At 03:20 PM 2/17/96 -0800, [email protected] wrote:
>[email protected] said:
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>>j> 1. President Clinton declared CDA unconstitutional and directed
>>j> the Justice department to refrain from enforcing it.
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>At 01:57 PM 2/16/96 -0600, Sten Drescher wrote:
>> Then why is the Justice Department defending it?
>
>Sorry: My error. As you pointed out he ruled *part* of the
>CDA unconstitutional -- a part that no one expected to be
>enforced anyway
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