Posted on 11/10/2016 6:29:56 AM PST by Mr. K
In a world where political symbols matter, President Barack Obama chose a worthy subject for the first executive order of his new administration. His first executive order, entitled “Presidential Records,” revokes Executive Order 13,233, President George W. Bush’s constitutionally lunatic procedure for enabling former Presidents and Vice Presidents to limit public access to their records. The obscurity of the subject does not diminish the importance of what the new President is signaling. A statute called the Presidential Records Act (PRA) gives an executive branch official, the National Archivist, custody of a former President’s records upon the conclusion of the President’s term of office. The PRA requires the Archivist, within specific procedural guidelines, to make presidential records “available to the public as rapidly and completely as possible.”
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NOTE: This alleged "author" twists reality to try to sell the fanciful notion that Obamas first executive order does the OPPOSITE of seal his records, and that is really increases transparancy. It was so important to him it was his first order of business in office.
It is comical in its bizarro world obfuscation of facts.
Let him know he only has a couple of weeks left to fellate obama in office.
Amusing retrospective.
After making much of this, he immediately had all his own records sealed.
It was to be the defining act of his two terms of bullsh*t and hypocrisy.
New laws over ride old ones and this is just a way to cover a Presidents tracks. Folks we are being destroyed by the so called Rule of Law.
Trump needs to go in and reveal all the crooked underhand dealings of Obama. That is why the Democrats thought it was imperative for Clinton to win to cover up all their crookedness.
What good is the Rule of Law when it allows people to come in here illegally and demand rights that our forefathers fought and died for us.
Illegal aliens are marching in America’s streets looting,burning and demanding rights. Wake Up America you are being overthrown by your government from within.
Every single one of Obama’s executive orders should be canceled, then take them out and burn them. If there is a acceptable phrase or paragraph in one or two of them, then issue a new Trump Executive Order that incorporates those phrases or paragraphs.
So Obama constantly ignored his own first Executive Order. Why shouldn’t Trump repeal it?
The process should be a little more involved than a blanket negation. Each one should be examined, pros and cons, the legal foundations (or lack thereof) behind each and then cancelled with a canceling statement.
That statement should echo what that FBI Director Comey said in deciding ALL of the 650,000 emails on Weiner’s computer weren’t relevant.
The Democrats are going to litigate these cancellations up to the SC - let’s make them do them one-by-one.
PING!!!
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NOTE: This alleged “author” twists reality to try to sell the fanciful notion that Obamas first executive order does the OPPOSITE of seal his records, and that is really increases transparancy. It was so important to him it was his first order of business in office.
Thanks, Mr. K
Yup, Dorkbama the Muslim eunuch really was the most transparent present evah.
The HuffPo is a daily delight.
Whenever you have doubts that the smartest progressive lives around two standard deviations to the left of 100 on the Bell curve, dial them up on the net and have a laugh.
YES! You Are Right!
Great list...I would only add
<><> scrap ALL of Boobamba's E/O's.
<><> close down the Clinton Foundation.
<><> ban ALL foundations connected to politicians.
<><> investigate the 78M dollars ex-Amb Wilson and crony Blumenthal
got for Tanzania from Secy Hillary's Millennium Challenge Corp. (MCC).
<><> investigate MCC---the State Dept slush fund chaired by Secy of State
<><> stop MCC's 100 million tax dollars to teach Muslim girls in Morocco
...... to be administered by the tax-free Obama Foundation.
I have no problem cancelling all of Obama EOs one-by-one.
But I don’t see any legal claim for which Demonicrats could litigate such cancellations, unless an executive order had been initially required by a law passed by Congress and signed by the President, or subsequently had been incorporated into a law passed by Congress and signed by the President.
Of course there are executive orders that deal with trivial actions in the past (like the annual pardon of the White House turkey), which are now pretty much irrelevant.
Understood, but they have done this in the past IIRC. I’m just saying the rescission statement should contain some sort of reasoned legal basis if that is possible.
The DEMOCRATS will fight the rescissions tooth and nail, take it to the bank.
Now having said that we can point to a number of them throughout history that do go beyond that branch, but as I mentioned that could be a separate thread.
Zippo's first EO only covers records he in responsible for during his time as POTUS, period. And yes any EO can be nullified with a new EO.
“...an EO’s authority is for the executive branch only.”
Really? Please elaborate. Thanks.
The executive branch's responsibilities, among others, is to enforce laws. EO's can be used to allocate resources to that end, but cannot make law. Do some EO's have the same effect as law? Yes. But again we do a whole thread on this topic.
My original point is the EO of the subject of this thread has no impact beyond how the executive branch handles his presidential records.
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