Should Executive Orders be banned forever? (Obama, elect, visa, constitutional)

[pch1013]

Simple question. Should the ability of Obama and all future Presidents to enact policy using executive orders be terminated?

[DeltaFiveTwo]

No, we just need to elect better presidents.

[rbohm]

no, but the power of executive orders needs to be reigned in, and a proper definition of what a president can do with executive orders needs to be established.

[urbanlife78]

No.

[jacqueg]

Originally Posted by urbanlife78

No.

I wish they were all as careful with Executive Orders as Obama has been.

Point of law - while I think it might be possible, if inadvisable, to ban future presidents from making EOs, I doubt you could apply this law to the president in office at the time the law is enacted.

Any president in his/her right mind would veto such a law, should one get that far in the process, and I doubt very much whether the veto would be overridden.

[T-310]

Executive order should be banned. They are used to do an end around the legislative process.

[jacqueg]

Originally Posted by T-310

Executive order should be banned. They are used to do an end around the legislative process.

Sometimes, yes. Usually though they are how an executive executes.

[florida.bob]

Originally Posted by pch1013

Simple question. Should the ability of Obama and all future Presidents to enact policy using executive orders be terminated?

Only in the extremely unlikely event that a Republican ever gets elected to the White House again.

[T-310]

Originally Posted by jacqueg

Sometimes, yes. Usually though they are how an executive executes.

Why they should be banned.

[jacqueg]

Originally Posted by T-310

Why they should be banned.

So the president should just be a figurehead? Hmmmm, that would require some significant Constitutional tinkering.