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Originally Posted by Hugh
You are more than welcome - does that mean the other 50+ Executive Orders Trumplethinskin has signed, without Congressional sign-off or Judicial challenge, don’t count?
Funny how with one President it’s a "blatant abuse of executive power.", but with another, it’s not...
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I’ve never brought up issues with Trump’s Executives Orders or whether any of them were over stepping his constitutional authority, if they do that’s for Congress or Supreme Court to contest and or indeed the Judicial system, which some lower district courts have and then Supreme Court has stepped in and partially removed the lower courts injunction, while it reviews the case in full.
We’re on the same page yeah, regarding balance of power?
I made a point that the President cannot act alone when it comes to gun control, you’re the one who came at me saying that a President Executive Orders carry legal weight, and I’m saying they do, but I’m saying they can be challenged quite easily because his authority is not legislative. So something like gun control needs to be properly legislated, so a future president comes along and and thinks, I’m scrapping that order, with a new order.
If President Obama had the Paris Climate Accord deal passed through Congress and it became law, Trump would not have been able to pull out of it when he did.
And just to be really pedantic... President Obama’s Action regarding DACA, was not an Executive Order, DACA was established by a Memorandum from the Secretary of Homeland Security. It’s why it’s establishment is said to be unconstitutional, because it’s a suspension of a law and the Presidents fundamental role as it states in the Constitution, is to faithfully execute the law. As per Section 3, Clause 5. This clause prevents a president from suspending the enforcement of any written law, which is basically what that DACA Memorandum instructs. Obama was abusing his powers, DACA is not Constitutional, it’s as simple as that.