Slaughter rule is unconstitutional

According to Michael McConnell, a former federal judge. I think he’s right, it terms of what the Constitution says, but I’m skeptical that the Supreme Court would throw the law over this. Alas, that’s what matters.

UPDATE: This is also interesting:

Also seemingly relevant would be INS v. Chada (1983), which rejected the position that a section 7 cases present a non-justiciable political question. The practice at issue in Chada, the one-house veto, was far more established by practice and by statute than is the Slaughter Solution of “deeming” an unenacted bill to have been enacted.

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