Paul Finkelman
Fri, 29 Jan 2010 12:20:47 -0800
Last time I knew the job of the House of Representatives WAS to write legislation. I guess Cantor does not understand Article I of the US Constitution. It is partisan, but sadly, it is also incredibly dumb ---- Paul Finkelman President William McKinley Distinguished Professor of Law Albany Law School 80 New Scotland Avenue Albany, NY 12208
518-445-3386 (p) 518-445-3363 (f) paul.finkel...@albanylaw.edu www.paulfinkelman.com ________________________________ From: "Miller, Darrell (mille2di)" <mille...@ucmail.uc.edu> To: "Conlawprof@lists.ucla.edu" <Conlawprof@lists.ucla.edu> Sent: Fri, January 29, 2010 2:43:38 PM Subject: Outsourcing Legislation from WH to the House of Representatives From Politico, full link here: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0110/32192_Page2.html Cantor criticized Obama for last year’s “outsourcing of the legislative activity from the White House to Nancy Pelosi here in this House,” which he said has resulted in “a bill shift and an agenda shift way to the left and outside the mainstream of this country.” To me, this seems like a fairly gross exploitation of people’s ignorance of our system of divided government, and an indictment of partisan gerrymandering which makes this kind of statement politically resonant. Darrell A.H. Miller Assistant Professor of Law University of Cincinnati College of Law PO Box 210040 Clifton Avenue & Calhoun Street Cincinnati, OH 45221-0040 v: 513-556-0133 f: 513-556-1236 e: darrell.mil...@uc.edu faculty page: http://www.law.uc.edu/faculty/profiles/miller.php SSRN: http://ssrn.com/author=1107305
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