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<blockquote data-quote="mugsy" data-source="post: 2840992" data-attributes="member: 18914">While I don&#039;t support a lot of the reasoning behind the President&#039;s executive actions on gun control (and other things), and also think that where they have been implemented they have often pushed the boundaries of EO legitimate authority, I don&#039;t read anything particularly alarming in what Mr McDonough said.&nbsp; A desire is not the same as a belief.&nbsp; I can easily believe that the WH desires that Pres. Obama&#039;s EOs not be undone by Congress or the Courts but that is just a wish (they could further their own goal by crafting carefully limited EOs that clearly remain within the administrative authority of the President).&nbsp; If the Chief of Staff had said, Pres Obama&#039;s EOs will stand regardless of Court decisions or laws passed by Congress that would be a much bigger deal.I find much more worrying the President&#039;s assertion of a unilateral, essentially unchecked, authority to simply ignore or enforce existing laws at his sole discretion.&nbsp; That&#039;s a very serious and Constitutionally unsupportable interpretation of Presidential authority.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="mugsy, post: 2840992, member: 18914"] While I don't support a lot of the reasoning behind the President's executive actions on gun control (and other things), and also think that where they have been implemented they have often pushed the boundaries of EO legitimate authority, I don't read anything particularly alarming in what Mr McDonough said. A desire is not the same as a belief. I can easily believe that the WH desires that Pres. Obama's EOs not be undone by Congress or the Courts but that is just a wish (they could further their own goal by crafting carefully limited EOs that clearly remain within the administrative authority of the President). If the Chief of Staff had said, Pres Obama's EOs will stand regardless of Court decisions or laws passed by Congress that would be a much bigger deal. I find much more worrying the President's assertion of a unilateral, essentially unchecked, authority to simply ignore or enforce existing laws at his sole discretion. That's a very serious and Constitutionally unsupportable interpretation of Presidential authority. [/QUOTE]

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