CATO on Executive Orders

Handbook of Advice to President Trump

https://www.cato.org/events/executive-orders-trump-administration-should-revoke-or-amend

The CATO Institute in Washington, DC has produced a handy little handbook on advice to President Trump on Executive Orders.

It invites a reflection on executive orders in our Constitutional system which I welcome wholeheartedly. It’s about an hour and a half long, with four policy experts who opine for about 10 minutes each on the direction Trump should go in the EO space.

Linked is the 60-some page handbook with footnotes to key Executive Orders in the past. Be warned, 60-some pages on Executive Orders is an ambitious undertaking. There have been several thousand EOs since we began counting in 1907. It’s enormously complex, especially when paired with policy-making through the APA-governed notice-and-comment regulation procedure. Add to that just the simple reminder that the US Constitution gave all the legislative power “herein granted” [Article 1, sect. 1] to Congress, not to any other branch, it makes you wonder what the Executive is doing making laws at all.

If you can hang with it even a little bit, you’re moving your own ball down the field in terms of your understanding of these things, even if you’re ahead of the rest of the country. Pay it forward some time.

Luke, for Trp

PS

Here’s a link to the handbook, which you can download for free. Take a look at it. I’m sure you’ll find something of interest to you.

https://www.cato.org/white-paper/cato-handbook-executive-orders-presidential-directives#conclusion