Reply #63: You're right. "Neither signed or..." is the key here. [View All]

[Leopolds Ghost]

SCOTUS is saying that if it is signed, nothing more needs to happen.

If it isn't signed, only then do you need to consider whether it is
possible for the President to return it for a veto or not, and only
then does the 10-day limit kick in.

As I mentioned in my probably entirely inaccurate post, this would seem to allow the President to sign a bill months later which he had previously pocket-vetoed.

In any case, it means that the 10-day limit is irrelevant to anything except vetos.

A president must return an unsigned bill with objections within 10 days or one of two things will happen, depending on whether or not Congress is in session.

Why couldn't they have worded it like that? Simpler.