Pocket veto
The President of Finland has the power to pocket-veto bills passed by the parliament. Zail Singh, the President of India from 1982 till 1987, exercised a pocket veto to prevent the Indian Post Office Bill from becoming law. Franklin D. Roosevelt had an outstanding number of pocket vetoes, more than anyone before or after him.
About Pocket veto in brief
A pocket veto is a legislative maneuver that allows a president or another official with veto power to exercise that power by taking no action. This depends on the laws of each country; the common alternative is that if the president takes no action a bill automatically becomes law. The President of Finland has the power to pocket-veto bills passed by the parliament; however, such vetoes are temporary in effect. Zail Singh, the President of India from 1982 till 1987, exercised a pocket veto to prevent the Indian Post Office Bill from becoming law. Franklin D. Roosevelt had an outstanding number of pocket vetoes, more than anyone before or after him. George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Donald J. Trump are the only modern presidents to not use pocket vetoedes. The U.S. Constitution limits the president’s period for decision on whether to sign or return any legislation to ten days while the United States Congress is in session. If Congress prevents the bill’s return by adjourning during the 10-day period, and the president does not sign the bill, a \”pocket veto\” occurs and the bill does not become law.
If a bill is pocket vetoed while Congress is out of session, the only way for Congress to circumvent the pocket vetoed is to reintroduce the legislation as a new bill, pass it through both chambers, and present it to the President again for signature. Courts have never fully clarified when an adjournment by Congress would \”prevent\” the president from returning a vetoed bill. Some presidents have interpreted the Constitution to restrict the Pocket Veto to the adjournment sine die of Congress at the end of the second session of the two-year congressional term, while others interpreted it to allow intersession and intrasession pocket vetoe. In 1938, the Supreme Court in part in S. Wright v Wright reversed itself, saying that the Constitution did not define what shall constitute a return of a bill or deny the use of appropriate agencies.
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