"Ensuring Accountability for All Agencies" – Executive Order
1–10 of 1001 posts
Re: "Ensuring Accountability for All Agencies" – Executive Order
#2[flagged]
Re: "Ensuring Accountability for All Agencies" – Executive Order
#3I am duly elected and I set the laws, and interpret the rules as I please - as a duly elected representative with spineless Congress.
Signed
Your neighborhood dictator
Re: "Ensuring Accountability for All Agencies" – Executive Order
#4[flagged]
Re: "Ensuring Accountability for All Agencies" – Executive Order
#5Executive Orders aren’t law.
Re: "Ensuring Accountability for All Agencies" – Executive Order
#6Executive Orders aren’t law.
This Executive Order says they are law, checkmate, sane people.
Re: "Ensuring Accountability for All Agencies" – Executive Order
#7“ Sec. 7. Rules of Conduct Guiding Federal Employees’ Interpretation of the Law. The President and the Attorney General, subject to the President’s supervision and control, shall provide authoritative interpretations of law for the executive branch. The President and the Attorney General’s opinions on questions of law are controlling on all employees in the conduct of their official duties. No employee of the executive branch acting in their official capacity may advance an interpretation of the law as the position of the United States that contravenes the President or the Attorney General’s opinion on a matter of law, including but not limited to the issuance of regulations, guidance, and positions advanced in litigation, unless authorized to do so by the President or in writing by the Attorney General.”
This does not bode well for that country’s democracy.
Re: "Ensuring Accountability for All Agencies" – Executive Order
#8“ Sec. 7. Rules of Conduct Guiding Federal Employees’ Interpretation of the Law. The President and the Attorney General, subject to the President’s supervision and control, shall provide authoritative interpretations of law for the executive branch. The President and the Attorney General’s opinions on questions of law are controlling on all employees in the conduct of their official duties. No employee of the executi…
This has nothing to do with "democracy" in any way. This is the equivalent of a CEO publishing a memo telling employees how to interpret things that happen outside of the company (e.g., new laws, social trends, etc.) It's the CEO's job to align their workforce to have the same interpretation of information. Federal judges can still rule on issues brought before them but the judges have to provide Constitutional- or precedent-related rulings.
Why are Americans acting so surprised that the President has this authority? That is his job, as it was for all presidents before him. This executive order is saying that the "employees under the CEO" do not have the authority to usurp the "CEO's" interpretations of law. Checks and balances still apply, of course; Congress can intervene if the President is acting in ways that Congress doesn't like. That's what impeachment is for--and impeachment is a process regardless of whether the President is issuing "illegal" executive orders or doing something else like what Nixon did.
The process works; blame Congress for not holding the President accountable in the ways outlined by the Constitution.
Re: "Ensuring Accountability for All Agencies" – Executive Order
#9[flagged]
Re: "Ensuring Accountability for All Agencies" – Executive Order
#10“ Sec. 7. Rules of Conduct Guiding Federal Employees’ Interpretation of the Law. The President and the Attorney General, subject to the President’s supervision and control, shall provide authoritative interpretations of law for the executive branch. The President and the Attorney General’s opinions on questions of law are controlling on all employees in the conduct of their official duties. No employee of the executi…
This has nothing to do with "democracy" in any way. This is the equivalent of a CEO publishing a memo telling employees how to interpret things that happen outside of the company (e.g., new laws, social trends, etc.) It's the CEO's job to align their workforce to have the same interpretation of information. Federal judges can still rule on issues brought before them but the judges have to provide Constitutional- or p…
Because people in independent agencies are by act protected from exactly these things. Think for a bit, why were they not just called "agencies"?
And for all the stupidity of congress, if the fail to protect against a self-coup, that doesn't make it any less likely.