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Originally Posted by Elephant Walk
Request sounds like an order if the DHHS wasn't planning on doing it in the first place.
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Perhaps, but DHHS is an executive agency, so there's no question he has the authority to request
or order them to take specific action that is otherwise within their statutory authority. I mean, this is just criticizing the boss for being the boss.
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He's exercised more of these types of authorities than most Presidents in a looong time. This wouldn't be a big deal if it was a one-time event. But it's a repetition of "orders", condemnations of other branches of government which hold his power in check, and situations where his orders supercede Constitutionality.
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How do these orders supercede Constitutionality or infringe on the balance of powers? He's the head (constitutionally) of the executive branch issuing executive orders related to how the executive branch will function. There's absolutely no "comdemnation" of other branches of government. The courts always have the authority to declare an executive order invalid if the president exceeded his authority in issuing it. Congress has the power to supercede the order by statute.
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Originally Posted by Elephant Walk
By my count, Obama has issued 47 executive orders. (I simply counted the ones on the White House website. Mind you, Bush did 291 over 8 years. Obama's on pace to do it in little more than 5, perhaps 6.
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But what are the orders about? Looking through the lists you posted, there's an awful lot of fairly routine stuff in there.
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