Gershman Investment Corporation v. Danforth

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• holding that, because the Attorney General is a member of the executive branch and lacks any judicial power to declare the law, ”[h]is opinions may be persuasive to some and not to others,” but, in any event, they are not binding on the courts
• \[A]n Attorney General may not declare a statute unconstitutional. This power is reserved to the courts by the Constitution.\
• the attorney general, as a member of the executive branch, has no judicial authority and may not declare the law; only courts have the authority to determine issues of law
• the attorney general, as a member of the executive branch, has no judicial authority and may not declare the law; only courts have the authority to determine issues of law
• courts, not attorney general, have power to construe and declare the law

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