Executive Orders

American businesses are looking

American businesses are looking for are certainty and executive orders don’t really get them that. Eric Bolling

The gag rule must

The gag rule must be eliminated, and it’s just the gag rule, we’re not talking now even about funding abortion. We’re talking about, you know, counseling and speaking, so that’s one. That can be reversed by an executive order. [George W.]Bush put it in the first day he got in office. We hope that [Barack] … Read more

A different [Ronald] Reagan-era

A different [Ronald] Reagan-era authority: EO 12333, an executive order for foreign-intelligence collection, as opposed to the ones we now use domestically. So this one isn’t even authorized by law. It’s just an old-ass piece of paper with Reagan’s signature on it, which has been updated a couple times since then. So what happened was … Read more

When I’m president, we’ll

When I’m president, we’ll have executive orders to overcome any wrong thing the Supreme Court does tomorrow or any other day Dick Gephardt

My argument is focused

My argument is focused on the fact that a relatively small percentage of the world’s Muslim countries are impacted by this order. Stated differently, this executive order is a singularly ineffective – in legal parlance, it would be called under-inclusive – form of a Muslim ban. David B. Rivkin

There is no executive

There is no executive order; there is no law that can require the American people to form a national community. This we must do as individuals and if we do it as individuals, there is no President of the United States who can veto that decision. Barbara Jordan

I’ve got a pen,

I’ve got a pen, and I’ve got a phone, and I can use that pen to sign executive orders and take executive action. I’ve got a pen to talk executive actions where congress won’t. Where congress isn’t acting, I’ll act on my own. I have got a pen and I got a phone. And that … Read more

I just released an

I just released an op-ed in the “Washington Post” that talks about providing an I.D. so that everyone can have an I.D., primarily, the social security card, a picture would be put on that card, and a president can certainly by executive order make this happen so that people will not need a special I.D. … Read more

I was very, very

I was very, very concerned about President Obama and how much executive order and how much executive power he tried to exert. But I think I want to be, and I think congress will be, a check on any executive, Republican or Democrat, that tries to grasp too much power. And really, a lot of … Read more

The president began this

The president began this program by executive order. He should immediately end it by executive order. For over a year now, he has said the program is illegal, and yet he does nothing. Rand Paul