Doesn’t the exec order become a law in ninety days? The process is vague, but we are just days away from this on gun control.
Similarly, the courts generally reject claims against private defendants for violations of executive orders. For example, in Cohen v. Illinois Institute of Technology, 524 F.2d 818 (7th Cir. 1975), 425 U.S. 943, 96 S. Ct. 1683, 48 L. Ed. 2d 187 (1976), the appellate court denied a professor's claim against a university to recover damages for Sex Discrimination in violation of Executive Order No. 11,246, stating that the executive order could not give rise to an independent private cause of action.
If that were the case, why would we need a "Congress"?
We could just have the President issue Royal Decrees.
No. Executive orders are administrative instructions to executive branch agencies, such as, "Do not leave the toilet seat up in your agency office."
Congress legislates.
The executive branch executes.
The judicial branch judges.
Theoretically.
“Doesn’t the exec order become a law in ninety days?”
Nope. An Executive Order carries NO additional legal weight of any kind.
An Executive Order is simply something he writes down, but all of his orders, verbal or written, are Executive Orders. The President can simply verbally state what he wants his staff to do.
Also, he ONLY commands his staff and ONLY within the confines of the law as passed by the Congress.