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A brief history of executive orders
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A brief history of executive orders Opinion
Like other recent presidential candidates, Donald Trump was highly critical during his initial campaign of the increasing presidential use of executive orders, ... Carl P. Leubsdorfexecutive ordersBut as soon as Trump took office, like other presidents he started issuing his own executive orders to fulfill campaign promises, such as banning Muslim immigration and ending “sanctuary cities” protecting illegal immigrants.
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It’s a familiar pattern. Recently, a federal appeals court declared unconstitutional Obama’s 2012 order protecting Dreamers.
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But it suspended enforcement, pending a lower court’s review of Biden’s effort to revise the order protecting those brought here illegally as children. Read more: Dallas Morning News » 'I would still vote for Donald Trump, and I'm an American Jew' Jan. 6 Committee Formally Subpoenas Donald Trump Donald Trump Formally Subpoenaed by January 6 Committee Jan.
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6 Committee Formally Subpoenas Donald TrumpBREAKING: The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol subpoenaed former President Donald Trump, setting up a ferocious battle that will likely see him defy the summons.
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Lock him up Treat him the same as every other citizen. If he refuses to testify, he should be arrest...
Donald Trump Formally Subpoenaed by January 6 CommitteeThe panel sent a letter to the former president’s lawyers on Friday, demanding his testimony under oath by mid-November and outlining a series of corresponding documents. Jan. 6 committee issues subpoena to Donald Trump in probe of Capitol riotThe extraordinary move puts the panel, which the former president has repeatedly criticized as political, into a legal confrontation with Trump.
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Lock him up Treat him the same as every other citizen. If he refuses to testify, he should be arrested.
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This idea that he is some kind of privileged character is a big part of how the American political system is in such danger. Yeah, good luck with that one.
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Jan. 6 committee subpoenas former President Donald Trump, calling on him to testify Nov. 14The panel is seeking testimony and documents from the former president — the 'central player' in the events leading up to the riot, its members say.
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Let’s hope he doesn’t comply. The four months he’s in prison will feel like a national holiday. Donald Trump deposed in defamation suit filed by E.
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Jean CarrollFormer President Trump answered questions under oath Wednesday in a lawsuit filed by E. ...
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Jean CarrollFormer President Trump answered questions under oath Wednesday in a lawsuit filed by E. Jean Carroll, a magazine columnist who says he raped her in the mid-1990s in a department store dressing room.
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Frustrated presidents have increasingly used them to overcome partisan gridlock.FBI joint task force asking me to contact them.“We are obligated to seek answers directly from the man who set this all in motion," Rep.Updated 4 mins ago AP Photo/LM Otero, File The House committee investigating the Jan. President Joe Biden signs executive orders at the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office just hours after his inauguration on January 20, 2021.
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Leubsdorf 1:30 AM on Oct 22, 2022 CDT Like other recent presidential candidates, Donald Trump was hi...
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Leubsdorf 1:30 AM on Oct 22, 2022 CDT Like other recent presidential candidates, Donald Trump was highly critical during his initial campaign of the increasing presidential use of executive orders , in this case by President Barack Obama. “Because he couldn’t get anybody to agree with him, he starts signing them like they’re butter,” Trump said at a 2016 Janesville, Wis. Inset: Radio show host Ari Hoffman, an Orthodox Jew living in Seattle says that he voted for Donald Trump in 2020 and would again., town hall.
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14 and outlining a request for a series of corresponding documents, including personal communications between the former president and members of Congress as well as extremist groups. “So, I want to do away with executive orders for the most part.S.” But as soon as Trump took office, like other presidents he started issuing his own executive orders to fulfill campaign promises, such as banning Muslim immigration and ending “sanctuary cities” protecting illegal immigrants. But he ultimately learned the downside of governing by executive order: Courts can overturn them as unconstitutional, and future presidents can revoke them.
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Brandon Bell/Getty Images So, anti-Semitism comes from the right, and it comes from the left. A federal judge declared unconstitutional Trump’s order ending sanctuary cities.
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A similar ruling forced him to revise the order banning Muslim immigration. People say there is more...
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And his successor, Joe Biden, revoked both. It’s a familiar pattern....
When I received death threats, I thought of myself more as a libertarian at that point. Recently, a federal appeals court declared unconstitutional Obama’s 2012 order protecting Dreamers. But it suspended enforcement, pending a lower court’s review of Biden’s effort to revise the order protecting those brought here illegally as children.
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But I didn't vote for Trump in 2016, because I looked at both him and Hillary Clinton and said: Nope. Those examples give some sense of the complexity of using executive orders. Frustrated presidents have increasingly used them in recent years to overcome the partisan gridlock keeping Congress from resolving national problems like immigration through normal legislative action.
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Trump won my vote through his policies. And their use will likely continue if gridlock persists, as ...
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Nothing in the Constitution specifically authorizes a president to issue executive orders. Did I hat...
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Trump won my vote through his policies. And their use will likely continue if gridlock persists, as long as the courts provide presidents enough leeway through delay or approval to allow their executive actions to be at least temporarily effective.
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Nothing in the Constitution specifically authorizes a president to issue executive orders. Did I hat...
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Nothing in the Constitution specifically authorizes a president to issue executive orders. Did I hate the tweets?
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Sure. But the American Bar Association notes that Article II grants the president “executive power...
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Sure. But the American Bar Association notes that Article II grants the president “executive power,” limited only by the requirement he “take care that the laws be faithfully executed” or face impeachment and removal for “treason, bribery or other high crimes and misdemeanors.” Presidents have interpreted that from the outset as broad authority to use executive orders to implement their policies. But through his policies, Israel had four peace deals with Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, Sudan and Morocco.
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George Washington issued the first one in June 1789, six weeks after his inauguration. It directed t...
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According to The American Presidency Project at the University of California at Santa Barbara, every...
George Washington issued the first one in June 1789, six weeks after his inauguration. It directed the superseded departments from the Articles of Confederation to assist the new departments Congress was creating. In December 2019, Trump signed an executive order on anti-Semitism that included Jews in Title VI civil rights protection.
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According to The American Presidency Project at the University of California at Santa Barbara, every president but William Henry Harrison (who served only one month) has issued executive orders, from the single one by President James Monroe to the 3,721 issued by Franklin D. Roosevelt in just over three terms.
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This is a guy with three Jewish grandkids who are observant. From declaring a bank holiday upon assu...
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Even my early experience with Donald Trump wasn't so much the guy from The Apprentice , it was m...
This is a guy with three Jewish grandkids who are observant. From declaring a bank holiday upon assuming the presidency to creating agencies to fight the Depression, Roosevelt never hesitated to use his executive powers, especially when the Supreme Court’s conservative majority rejected some of his initial legislative solutions. During his first term, the court not only invalidated some laws Congress passed to fight the Depression, but also overturned Roosevelt’s subsequent executive orders carrying out their provisions.
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Even my early experience with Donald Trump wasn't so much the guy from The Apprentice , it was more from the stories about donations and the way he was thought of in the observant Jewish community in New York when I lived there. The retirement of several conservative justices ended that judicial blockade in his second term, enabling many later Roosevelt directives to pass muster.
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In 1944, the court — now dominated by his nominees — upheld his controversial post-Pearl Harbor ...
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In 1944, the court — now dominated by his nominees — upheld his controversial post-Pearl Harbor 1942 directive to relocate to detention camps all persons of Japanese ancestry from large parts of the western United States designated as “military areas. While I was there, I was walking down the street and I noticed they had Trump yarmulke everywhere.” By 6-3, it concluded the action was a “military necessity” and was not based on race. In 1951, however, the Supreme Court blocked his successor, President Harry Truman, from seizing the nation’s steel factories to stop a strike during the Korean War.S.
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By 6-3, it ruled he exceeded his authority. Truman’s four appointees divided 2-2 in the decision....
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By 6-3, it ruled he exceeded his authority. Truman’s four appointees divided 2-2 in the decision.
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I went into one shop, and just for fun, I said,"Hey, do you have any Biden yarmulkes?" The owner just laughed at me and said they wouldn't sell them; that nobody would want them, because of how beloved Trump was in Israel. That decision did not become a precedent preventing future presidents from acting without congressional approval. In the 1960s and 1970s, the court rejected suits challenging actions by several presidents during the Vietnam war.
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So when he makes the comments that he could be the Prime Minister of Israel, I believe that's tr...
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So when he makes the comments that he could be the Prime Minister of Israel, I believe that's true. More recently, immigration became a major subject for executive orders, especially after Congress twice failed to pass the kinds of broad reforms many in both parties considered necessary.
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During the 2020 presidential campaign, some Democratic hopefuls promised to expand the use of execut...
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During the 2020 presidential campaign, some Democratic hopefuls promised to expand the use of executive orders to resolve other pending problems.S. Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren said she would use executive orders to cancel up to $50,000 in student-loan debt and ban all oil drilling on public lands.
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Mark Wilson/Getty Images Trump also took part in an interview with me on my radio show almost a year ago, in November 2021. According to The Washington Post , Vermont Sen.
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Bernie Sanders’ advisers were preparing an array of potential executive orders including legalizin...
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Bernie Sanders’ advisers were preparing an array of potential executive orders including legalizing marijuana and importing prescription drugs from Canada. People say that when you are in a room with Donald Trump you feel like you are the sole focus of his attention, and that's how I felt, even on a phone call.
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Biden suggested he’d take a more measured attitude toward using the president’s executive powers, promising to revoke numerous Trump orders but declaring in an ABC-TV Town Hall that a president shouldn’t act on broader issues like raising taxes “unless you’re a dictator.” Unsurprisingly, when he became president and signed more than 35 executive orders and memorandums, conservatives cited those words. Knowing Trump the way we all do, you call with one topic in mind and you're going to get everything else. “By his own definition, Biden is already governing like a dictator,” conservative columnist Joe Concha wrote in The Hill.
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Though that exaggerated his comment, Biden hasn’t hesitated to use executive orders, most recently...
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Though that exaggerated his comment, Biden hasn’t hesitated to use executive orders, most recently to pardon people convicted of marijuana possession and cancel up to $10,000 in student loans for lower- and middle-income Americans." I think in the tape you see my eyebrows go up. Just like clockwork, some critics assailed his decisions, while others filed lawsuits in ideologically “friendly” federal courts against his student loan forgiveness.
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That ensured that, like with his predecessors, federal courts will determine the extent of Biden’s unilateral executive authority. But he doesn't talk that way and he said what he said. Carl P.
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