From: Dave Farber <farber@central.cis.upenn.edu>
Date: Sun, 18 Feb 1996 08:37:58 +0800
To: stend@grendel.texas.net>
Subject: Re: A Cyberspace Independence Refutation
Message-ID: <2.2.32.19960217235252.00ce4398@linc.cis.upenn.edu>
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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, jamesd@echeque.com wrote:
>jamesd@echeque.com said:
>>
>>j> 1.  President Clinton declared CDA unconstitutional and directed
>>j> the Justice department to refrain from enforcing it.
>
>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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>We have the right to defend ourselves	|   http://www.jim.com/jamesd/
>and our property, because of the kind	|  
>of animals that we are. True law	|   James A. Donald
>derives from this right, not from the	|  
>arbitrary power of the state.		|   jamesd@echeque.com
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