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President Barack Obama is expected to announce executive action on gun control. The new executive action aims to expand background checks on gun sales and is expected to be announced next week. It’s again important to remember just what executive action is: ..The term executive action itself is...
Executive Order United States Presidents issue executive orders to help officers and agencies of the executive branch manage the operations within the federal government itself. Executive orders have the full force of law when they take authority from a power granted directly to the Executive by the Constitution, or...
Our Founders established three primary mechanisms to control an unconstitutional government. The first is the power of impeachment which we wrote about earlier. John Yoo and Robert De La Hunty at National Review see the politics the way I do: “The problem with impeachment is not its constitutional...
On Thursday, the President took Executive Action on immigration that, according to the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), calls for: 1) Expanding the population eligible for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program to young people who came to this country before turning 16 years...