A Congressional statute forbid the broadcast of that conversation - though the radio station itself had not planned or participated in the intercept.
In 1986, there was a Congressional statute that already created that difference.
"But we see our job as making sure the Congressional statute is complied with."
It was written, he said, to echo an earlier Congressional statute that made substantial assistance the only exception to mandatory minimum sentences for certain crimes.
It did so by a strained interpretation of Congressional statutes.
First, he refused to strictly, or even accurately, construe a Congressional statute.
Taxpayers can challenge the financing of religious activity, the administration claims, only when a Congressional statute expressly authorizes the spending.
The vacation rule is not a Congressional statute or agency regulation or Presidential order.
Until 1991, the court struck down an average of one Congressional statute every two years.
Similarly, in 2004, the court held that a state could be required by a Congressional statute to make its courthouses wheelchair accessible.