But for a long-tenured member of his Cabinet to make the same mistake several days later, as Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin did Sunday morning, is worrying on a different level. As Wallace pointed out, “that’s been ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court, sir.”Wallace is correct: The Supreme Court ruled the line-item veto unconstitutional in 1998. Regardless, Mnuchin was caught off guard to learn that the line-item veto had been ruled unconstitutional. That a member of his Cabinet made the same error two days later is far more disturbing. For Mnuchin to make this mistake days later means two things: 1.)

Source: Washington Post March 26, 2018 13:22 UTC