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How did FDR confiscate gold in 1933 without Congressional approval? Could a modern president do the same with a digital dollar?
In 1933, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt confiscated Americans' gold holdings. Apparently he did so through an Executive Order. How could this "fly" without Congressional approval?
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What decides the scope or limits of presidential executive orders in the US? [duplicate]
An executive order is a directive by the president of the United States that manages operations of the federal government
I searched around on the internet, and it seems like there isn't even a formal ...
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Why can't President Biden sign an executive order on the gun laws he wants congress to pass?
U.S President Biden has been in the news, such as this article in Forth Worth Star-Telegram, appealing for tougher gun laws. The article says that
He repeated calls to restore a ban on the sale of ...
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Day-One executive actions from Biden's predecessors?
Commenting on Biden's plan to sign a number of executive orders on Inauguration Day, the Washington Post quotes Jen Psaki as follows:
“President-elect Biden is taking historic action on Day One to ...
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Can sitting US president "issue an executive order" barring his opponent presidency?
During his speech on a campaign rally in North Carolina, Trump said,
“You can’t have this guy as your president… You can’t have… maybe I’ll sign an executive order, you cannot have him as your ...
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Could a US president do to the NRA what Trump is currently doing to TikTok?
Current US president Donald Trump is in the process of "banning" Tiktok in the USA:
The following actions shall be prohibited ...: any transaction by any person ... with ByteDance Ltd. ...
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Is there anything stopping the US President from issuing pre-emptive pardons for officials that violate court orders?
So, there has been a number of times when courts have rules against actions taken by the Trump administration on various different areas. Generally, to my knowledge, once these rulings have been made, ...
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Can a future president undo Trump's TikTok ban or is it outside of their control?
Can a future president undo Trump's TikTok ban, or would it be outside of their control? I am wondering, if Trump's executive order against TikTok passes, whether his successor (be it Biden, or ...
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Does the President have the legal authority to provide Coronavirus relief by an Executive Order?
After negotiations between Democrats and Republicans broke down, President Trump signed an executive order that provides $400 in weekly unemployment aid and defers payroll tax for those earning under $...
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Number Designation of Signed US Presidental Executive Orders
I was drafting an opinion piece which discusses an Executive Order (EO) recently signed by US President Donald J. Trump, and found that referencing the document wasn't as simple as I expected.
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Does removing the US president from office through impeachment affect the validity of the decisions they made?
What happens to changes made by the president of the United States after her/his impeachment?
Will executive orders and such automatically be invalidated, put on hold upon revaluation, revaluated, ...?...
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Is a presidential tweet an official order or military command?
Today the account @realDonaldTrump tweeted :
"The Navy will NOT be taking away Warfighter and Navy Seal Eddie
Gallagher’s Trident Pin. This case was handled very badly from the
beginning. Get ...
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Can the president put his own likeness on money?
Preface, I am unsure of all the powers the Federal Reserve possess or who controls the Reserve outside of congress.
However it is at the Federal level so I was wondering.
What control over the ...
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Can the POTUS perform a mass-pardon for those who meet certain criteria?
Let's say a POTUS wanted to legalise weed, and after doing so wanted to then free all the prisoners he could who's only crime was using/having weed, being otherwise innocent.
To do this, could the ...
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Why do the veto power and executive orders combined not make the US President a monarch?
As I understand it, the President has veto power and can overturn any federal law after it has passed Congress. The recent travel ban tells me that the President can use Executive Orders to make ...
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