Clinton v. City of New York

Clinton v. City of New York

Introduction

The paper aims to investigate the comprehensive and significant findings of the legal case Clinton v. City of New York. This case occurred in US Supreme Court in 1998. The United State's Supreme Court tenet the Line-Item veto as provided in the Act of 1996 “Line Item Veto” has violated the Presentment Clause of US Constitution. As it does not impermissible gave the President of the United States the authority to unilaterally revise or revoke clauses of statute that are agreed and imposed by the congress of Unites States of America. The decision of the court was taken by Justice J. Paul Stevens (Krehbiel, 1998).

Discussion

Case Highlight

The Act of 1996 “The Line Item Veto” authorized the president to revoke, which means to legally cancel or void few provisions from the appropriation bills. It also disallows the spending of funds from revoked provision for balancing deficit spending in few areas (Fisher, 1998).

Facts of the Case

The case is related to the two different challenge of the constitute cancelations made by the President of United States of America W.J. Clinton under the Act of “Line Item Veto”. Initially in New York the hospitals and health care unions challenged and confronted W.J. Clinton's cancellation of a provisions in Act of 1997 that is Balanced Budget. This cancellation by the president renounced the Government capability to recover almost $2.6 billion in taxes imposed against providers of Medicaid by the entire New York State (Fisher, 1997).

The other opposition came from the Corporation of Snake Farmer's one of the individual member opposed and challenged the cancelation of provision Act of 1997 that is Taxpayer Relief. The provision was there to permit food refiner and processor to defer gratitude of their capital gain in exchange for ...