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Originally Posted by MysticCat
What he did was request that an executive agency promulgate rules (regulations). The courts have held that regs, or administration laws, are as binding as statutory laws as long as they reasonably interpret and apply statutory law. In other words, agencies can only issue regs to the extent authorized by statute, and the regs must be consistent with the statutes the apply.
I realize many people may not like doing things this way and may see it as being at odds with the Constitution, but that horse left the barn a long time ago.
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While it has, that doesn't make it right nor Constitutional even if it's no longer argued.
Whats the Thomas Paine quote "A long standing tradition of thinking something right, it becomes right." (that's absolutely not verbatim)
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Since the discussion was on exective orders, I took you to mean that the executive orders to which you linked condemned other branches of government. Meanwhile, presidents bashing the courts generally and bashing particular decisions specifically is as old as the Republic.
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No, absolutely not. I'm not sure why he would condemn a branch through an executive order, I was more speaking in reference to his pseudo-dictatorial persuasion. And I'm not sure bashing the courts in such a public forum with such animosity is as old as the Republic.
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And yet they have, as recently as the last week or two.
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Sorry, I was thinking of the courts. The Congress has alot more audacity. The courts have only overturned two.