rooster -- certain of his signing statements at the damned least severely tested the limits, just wholesale declarations without any even purported real/recognizable legal basis that he/his administrations simply were not subject to/would not enfore or obey whole chunks of law (there's a bunch on that from the earlier years here, not gonna go find and link them here/now) -- of much more substance and concern, of course, were/remain various things his two administrations actually did -- see e.g. (linked in) http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=102801235 :
Number of new statutes challenged Especially since the mid-1980s, presidents have sometimes declared that they can ignore a provision of a bill because they believe it is unconstitutional. SOURCE: Presidential signing statements analyzed by Christopher Kelley, a political science professor at Miami University of Ohio, and by the Globe http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2006/04/30/statutes_challenged/
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