Presidential Powers and SOTU II.

A follow up to the previous post regarding presidential powers and the state fo the union. It puzzled me at the time, but then I forgot until this LA Times article:

The president also seemed to ignore Supreme Court precedent when he called for Congress to give him the "line item veto." But Congress did that once, in 1996, and it was used once, by former President Clinton. But in 1998, a federal judge ruled that it was unconstitutional. That was affirmed by a 6-3 decision of the Supreme Court.