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To: Beaten Valve

Somewhere I read that there’s a limitation to XO’s, what can or cannot be done with them. I think that Obamalamadingdong has got the dictator mentality.


4 posted on 10/31/2011 7:57:11 AM PDT by SkyDancer ("If You Don't Like What I Say Or Do, Tough, Deal With It")
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To: SkyDancer
Somewhere I read that there’s a limitation to XO’s, what can or cannot be done with them.

Executive Orders are, simply, the Executive's directives to implement policy using the authority the Executive branch has already been granted by Congress. They cannot be used to implement new policy above and beyond the bounds of the authority granted.

That's not to say that President's haven't tried to push those boundaries, but it's rare to have an EO overturned in court (only happened twice, most recently in 1995) for overstepping the Executive's authority.

14 posted on 10/31/2011 8:06:51 AM PDT by kevkrom (This space for rent.)
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