Wrong.
Obama attempted to legislate through executive orders, but he's one of few (if any) presidents who've ever attempted to circumvent the Constitution in that way.
You're talking as though executive orders are a new and unusual invention. They aren't. Every president, including George Washington, has issued them. They're merely communiques from the President to his various agencies, in which he sets forth his legal and constitutional directives.
The most controversial Executive Orders have always walked a thin line of constitutionality.
Lincoln’s suspension of the constitutionally guaranteed right of habeas corpus was declared unconstitutional by a federal judge. Lincoln ignored the court ruling.
Franklin Roosevelt’s internment of American citizens of Japanese ancestry was upheld as constitutional.
Truman’s attempt to nationalize the steel industry in order to prevent strikes during wartime was struck down by the Supreme Court.
In both Rasul v. Bush and Hamdi v. Rumsfeld the Court ruled that the President’s Commander-in-Chief power did not give him the unlimited authority to detain “enemy combatants” indefinitely
without giving them any recourse in the Courts.
No, I’m saying that executive orders have become way over-used and should be scrutinized.
You should be cheering not objecting to anyone who questions the constitutionality of a massive amount of federal action in a short period of time. WE are the watchdogs. Certainly the feds won’t watch themselves as evidenced by decades of unconstitutional federal acts and tyranny.
The executive orders that countermands Obama’s outrageous EO’s - that’s probably a good and valid thing. The rest I’m not so sure.
While everyone’s cheering for Trump’s quick moves, remember, our Constitutional Republic is constitutionally designed to move slowly. A totalitarian regime moves quickly.
So Trump’s quickly undoing the unconstitutional dictatorial stuff Obama did is a good thing and I think valid. But Trump should go through the proper constitutional channels to implement his agenda. I’m not saying he necessarily is not doing that even though it seems like a lot of EO’s but then Obama issued a lot of EO’s and DIDN’T implement laws Congress passed. But normally as I said, the President doesn’t issue EO’s to implement Congressional laws.