Posted on 02/01/2013 11:53:11 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Discussing gun control, CNN's Wolf Blitzer on Friday told a Utah sheriff that if Barack Obama issues an executive order, that order is the law and the sheriff must obey. However, jurisprudence on this topic reveals exactly the opposite.
As the head of the executive branch of the federal government, a president can issue executive orders only to employees of the federal government—and only regarding implementing federal laws or programs. A governor can likewise issue executive orders to employees of his state government regarding the laws or programs of that state.
Every sheriff is a county officer, elected by the voters of that county...
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“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.
I think the Nuremberg experience goes even further. Lawful or not, government officials have a duty to defy orders which are inherently evil. Passing a law in Germany to authorize killing of Jews did not in any way justify obedience to such laws.
The movie Judgement at Nuremberg depicts the trials of some of the court judges. They were convicted of having OBEYED unjust laws.
Media writing the rules again
Technically speaking it's more restrictive than that. The President is the head of the executive branch. His orders pertain to the executive branch only i.e. the cabinet departments and their underling agencies, bureaus, etc.
EOs have (or should have) no bearing on Legislators, their staffs, Federal Judges and their clerks, etc.
Granted the overwhelming majority of fedgov employees are in the executive department, and certainly not to private citizens.
Cnn’s finest proves just how ignorant and gullible they are no wonder all their reports sound the same.
So the Jap- Amercans who went to camps were... illegal, or a figment of hysterical history.
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So the Jap- Amercans who went to camps were... illegal, or a figment of hysterical history.
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Non-sequitur. The federal government ran the program but in no way forced any Sheriff to comply. Any compliance was voluntary. Try again. This time, try to pick something you actually know something about.
A Sheriff is also capable of deputizing and arming large segments of his county population. I, for one, would be happy to serve my county should the need arise.
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