Pocket Veto Case - The Pocket Veto, President Coolidge's Pocket Veto And The Washington Tribes, A Definition Of Adjournment

Pocket Veto Case - Further Readings

Pocket Veto Case - The Pocket Veto

The Constitution mandates that the president has ten days to veto a bill; if he does not return it with a veto during that time, the bill will automatically become a law. But if Congress is adjourned when those ten days are up, he may "pocket" the bill, thus vetoing it by default. This is the pocket veto, which has been used in two-fifths of all presidential vetoes. Supporters of a strong executiv…

Pocket Veto Case - President Coolidge's Pocket Veto And The Washington Tribes

Whenever a new law is passed by both houses of the U.S. Congress, the proposed statute is passed to the president, who has the option of approving the law by signing it or rejecting it with a veto. A vetoed bill is normally returned to Congress with the president's objections noted so that Congress can reconsider the bill. If the president neither signs nor vetoes the bill within ten days, not cou…

Pocket Veto Case - A Definition Of Adjournment

On 27 May, the Supreme Court unanimously affirmed the court of claims' decision not to hear the Okanogan claims. In the written opinion, Justice Sanford emphasized that Congress had no power to shorten or lengthen the amount of time a president was allowed to consider a bill. The Court placed responsibility for providing the ten-day consideration period on Congress, which had adjourned without giv…