My understanding is that EOs are just calls to action for agencies within the executive branch to take certain actions within their powers allotted by congress. Did the Biden administration make some EO that went against this, re: carbon emissions?
Can someone (by which I mean
@Leo or
@padraig (u.s.) let's face it) explain Executive Orders to me? In my head the government can create a law by writing a law that they want and then getting both houses to vote for "Yes let's make that a law" - that vaguely (on the right lines, albeit no doubt crudely simplified?
And I thought that an EO was a way for the president to just make his own law and put it into place by bypassing Congress, more specifically, bypassing the need to for a vote on it.
I seem to remember that there was a period when Obama did a few of them - more than normal I guess - and the right lost their shit. And the, following the usual pattern, when Trump got in power he started firing them out like confetti and the right went "Woooh go for it Trumpy, why didn't you do that Obama you twat, it's a perfectly way for the president to act".
I sort of get that there may be times when the Pres might need to do something like that - if things are gridlocked perhaps - but I would have thought that there need to be some kind of criteria that need to be met before it can be done, and maybe a limit on how many you can do per term or per week or per hour or something. Otherwise what's stop pres running the country that way by default... or is it just another of those toothless convention type things?
As an aside, thank you very much to those answering questions on basketball and the US system. I do appreciate you guys taking the time to do that. For me it's so much more interesting to hear it from you guys than to try and look it and wade through dry explanations. Of course it has the advantage that I can ask very specific questions and you can enlarge on the bits that i need and so on. Very helpful, also interesting and enjoyable - I want you to know that I am not taking it for granted. And also, I do hope it's not too annoying.