All 21st Century Presidents pale in comparison to America's most authoritarian President to date (and the closest the country has actually gotten to a fascist regime), FDR, in number of EOs given.
Sure, if you want to single out Obama for using a different tool to implement executive action, go right ahead and good for you! It doesn't really speak to the issue that Obama hardly invented the idea of running by executive fiat rather than legislation though, nor that Trump in particular was just the same.
To be fair, he did have to deal with the depression and WW2.All 21st Century Presidents pale in comparison to America's most authoritarian President to date (and the closest the country has actually gotten to a fascist regime), FDR, in number of EOs given.
Like every politician Biden says a lot of things, some of which make sense and/or are true.Biden said he would fully align US foreign policy to the UN.
We don't call them Executive Orders in the Obama White House. They're referred to as "Presidential Memoranda."
In what ways was trump a check against corporatocracy ?Trump, for all of the absurd accusations of fascism hurled against him, was about this best resistance to this fascist takeover our nation could muster and now that he’s been defeated, the new regime will likely make an example of him and his allies.
Will the next AG keep this going after ken paxton is in prison tho?Oppressing Texas like this isn't going to end well.
Oppressing Texas like this isn't going to end well.
You might wanna read the complaint, a lot of the stuff named in it is the same sort of thing that gave Trump's executive orders so much trouble.I do not think this lawsuit is going to go anywhere. There are overwhelmingly numerous precedents set throughout *both* the Obama and Trump Administrations that the executive branch has broad authority over immigration enforcement. Moreover, in his actual suit, Paxton claims that the Biden Administration is strictly bound by an "agreement to consult and cooperate" which the Trump Administration previously signed with Texas. This is not true; no administration is even tacitly bound to follow the same executive policies and agreements as any previous administration.
I mean, could you imagine if California signed a similar agreement with the Obama Administration, then sued the Trump Administration saying because of this deal, Trump cannot lawfully change federal policies without permission from California? That's not how executive authority works.
After the past 4 years of president Hawaiian judge i'm delighted to see president Texas judge, 4 more years!!!Oppressing Texas like this isn't going to end well.
Presidential Memoranda were an established thing long before President Obama. They're a presidential directive of lower "rank" than an executive order, which is significant because in the case of any contradiction, EOs strictly override PMs as opposed to "newer order overrides older order".
There are a LOT of different forms of Presidential directives: administrative orders, executive orders, presidential proclamations, presidential memoranda, presidential findings. . . findings are actually required by law, everything else is mostly, "Whatever the current administration feels like using." For example, the Trump Administration decided to downgrade National Security Directives to National Security Presidential Memoranda, which did not change anything about them other than the "prestige level" of being a memorandum as opposed to a directive.
Seriously; where did this idea come from that the establishment would back down from pushing the Corona Virus angle after they won? If anything, they're going to keep using it as an excuse to establish dictatorial power over every aspect of society and our lives. They don't care that it will ruin the economy, they just want more power.
Fo shizzle.
But if you look on Wikipedia, you can see something rather dramatic that the USA Today article was referencing. For example, GWB had 290 Executive Actions, 7 Presidential Memorandums, and 28 Presidential Determinations.
Obomber had 276 Executive Actions and 644 Presidential Memorandums.
Then the once and future President Trump had 220 Executive Actions (in one year!), 52 Presidential Memorandums (including Seven National Security Memorandums), and at least 28 Presidential Determinations in half the time. It seems rather disproportionate... to an exceptional degree even if some fraction of Obama's memorandums were simply clerical errata.
They're dems, so no. It's ok when they do it.I wonder - is it possible to remove Pelosi, Harris, AOC, et. al. for inciting violence this last spring and summer?