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- From: bhayden@teal.csn.org (Bruce Hayden)
- Subject: Re: Countermanding USA Executive Orders
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- Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 22:45:13 GMT
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- pierce@lanai.cs.ucla.edu (Brad Pierce) writes:
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- >--
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- >Observation:
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- > If USA President X could countermand extant Executive Orders at any
- > time with the stroke of a pen, then any of X's predecessors' extant
- > Executive Orders not countermanded by X would in effect also be X's
- > Executive Orders.
-
- >Question:
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- > Does the USA President have the power to countermand extant Executive
- > Orders at any time with the stroke of a pen? Does the Congress have
- > the power to prevent such a countermand (within certain time
- > limits)?
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- I doubt it, based on the presentment clause. Congress cannot do anything
- unless it is submitted to a president for signature or veto. That would
- make it a law, not an Executive Order.
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- Bruce E. Hayden
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