Legal Opinion
Burke v. Barnes
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided January 14, 1987No. 85-781PublishedCited by 245 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Rehnquist
Both the House of Representatives and the Senate passed a bill, H. R. 4042, 98th Cong., 1st Sess. (1983), conditioning the continuance of United States military aid to El Salvador upon the President’s semiannual certification of El Salvador’s progress in protecting human rights. The President neither signed the bill nor returned it to the House of Representatives where it had originated, and took the position that because Congress had in the meantime adjourned at the end of its first session the bill had been subjected to a “pocket veto” under Article I, § 7, cl. 2, of the United States…
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