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Legislative Veto
Definition
A mechanism allowing one or both houses of Congress to override or cancel an executive action without passing a new law or obtaining the President's signature. The Supreme Court struck down legislative vetoes as unconstitutional in INS v. Chadha (1983), removing what had been IEEPA's primary congressional check on presidential emergency powers.
Examples
- •IEEPA originally contained a two-house legislative veto as its key constraint on presidential power, but after Chadha, only a joint resolution requiring the President's signature remains