A U.S. District Court judge has thrown out a lawsuit filed by Democratic Congressional members that challenged the constitutionality of the Deficit Reduction Act (DRA) of 2005.
U.S. District Judge Nancy G. Edmunds of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan dismissed the suit on Monday, according to an article in the Detroit News. Edmunds granted the U.S. government's motion for dismissal, saying that the 11 members of Congress who filed the suit "did not have standing to sue because together they would not have had enough votes to change the bill," according to an article on the newspaper's Web site.
The lawsuit had challenged the DRA as unconstitutional because the versions passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives had not been reconciled prior to receiving President Bush's signature. In rejecting the lawsuit, Edmunds said that an enrolled bill signed by the presiding officers of the House and Senate -- as was the case of the DRA -- was "unimpeachable evidence" that the bill had been passed by both chambers of Congress, according to the Detroit News.
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
November 7, 2006
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