Line item veto

This very much sounds as though Bush has given himself line item veto power:

Bush also complained that Congress had stuffed a year-end spending bill with hundreds of projects that he called wasteful and instructed his budget director to explore options for dealing with them.

Bush said that a $555 billion measure passed by Congress before breaking for the holidays contains some 980 in so-called "earmarks," or projects usually benefiting only one state or congressional district.

"So I am instructing Budget Director Jim Nussle to review options for dealing with the wasteful spending in the omnibus bill," Bush said.

There really isn't any need for Congress or the courts when the King is all powerful.