‘So Pilate said to him, “You will not speak to me? Do you not know that I have authority to release you and authority to crucify you?” Jesus answered him, “You would have no authority over me at all unless it had been given you from above.’ - John 19:10-11
‘Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.’ - John Adams, October 11, 1798
I despise Executive Orders.
The separation of powers in the United States Constitution gives the power to make law to Congress, the power to enforce law to the President, and the power to adjudicate the law to the U.S. Supreme Court.
From George Washington to James Buchanan (1789 to 1860), only 145 Presidential Executive Orders were signed.
Since Abraham Lincoln through Joe Biden (1861 to 2024), U.S. Presidents, both Democrat and Republican, signed 15,766 Executive Orders.
In 2014, while signing an executive order to raise the minimum wage for federal contractors, President Obama fam…
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