They apply only to the Executive Branch and are supposed to give guidelines on how to apply existing law.
Over the years they transmogrified to "Stroke of the pen, law of the land. Pretty cool."
Thank you Paul "Forehead" Begala.
190 posted on 07/22/2014 8:57:55 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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